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Grand Canyon University, which bills itself as a Christian school and is the largest recipient of federal aid of any American college or university, is once again revving up the right-wing echo chamber to claim it is facing an unwarranted assault from the U.S. Department of Education. Now, GCU’s surrogates charge the attack is aimed
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University of Arizona president Robert Robbins announced today that he is stepping down, as criticism has mounted, including from Arizona governor Katie Hobbs, over his handling of the acquisition of for-profit Ashford University, which had a long record of deceiving lower-income students, and over U of A’s related financial turmoil. “I informed the regents this
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At the urging of University of Idaho president C. Scott Green, the school’s alumni association recently hired a lobbyist whose duties have included trying to persuade state legislators not to thwart Green’s plan for his school to acquire the for-profit giant University of Phoenix. The proposed deal to spend $685 million to buy Phoenix, a
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I’m scheduled to offer a brief public comment at today’s session of the Department of Education’s negotiating rulemaking meetings, where representatives of various higher education constituencies have come together to debate new proposed regulations governing issues including distance education, state government authorization of schools, and standards for the private accrediting bodies that oversee schools.  My
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Today I’m scheduled to present brief comments (3 minutes max allowed) at a meeting of NACIQI, the U.S. Department of Education’s advisory committee charged with reviewing the performance of the private accrediting agencies that oversee quality at colleges and universities. Here’s what I plan to say: In April 2020, I wrote an article about a
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The California Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld $21 million in penalties against for-profit Ashford University, after a state judge found in 2022, following a trial, that the school had systematically deceived prospective students about matters including the costs of attendance, the value of Ashford degrees, and the transferability of credits. The appeals court affirmed
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In the shoe department at Belk’s department store yesterday, a familiar thing: The sales guy was trying to convince us to get a Belk’s credit card, saying we would get a big discount on the shoes. We got to talking, and he mentioned that he was taking his first airplane flight ever in a couple
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The U.S. Department of Education has reached a deal with California-based International Education Corp. (IEC) that requires the “separation” from the company of its CEO, as well as its chief financial officer. The agreement, posted this morning on the Department’s website, also finalizes the termination of federal aid to IEC’s troubled for-profit Florida Career College
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