By Marc Jerome, President, Monroe College
The time has come to challenge the underlying philosophy behind 90-10 and consider modest changes that would transform a rule that is primarily punitive, to a rule that is constructive and encourages policies that help low-income students.
By Benjamin Franklin
America has relied on private sector higher education throughout its history, and we need to celebrate this important institution, and not destroy it.
By Benjamin Franklin
Franklin is concerned that the political drumbeat of higher education policy resembles the socialist/authoritarian mantra of the Tories. The private sector, both for-profit and not-for-profit, must hang together to resist the siren of free education, or they surely will hang separately.
By Guy Bell, Independent Higher Ed Consultant
Unfortunately, some of the most challenging barriers to overcome have nothing to do with markets, investors, or learning. They have to do with seeing the problem and solving it.
By Wallace K. Pond, Ph.D., President, Khawarizmi International College and CEO, Khawarizmi Holding Company
It is true that some number, and maybe a large number, of institutions will not survive the next ten to twenty years and fewer still will truly thrive. Fortunately, there is an emerging model for both surviving and thriving, which a growing number of enlightened colleges and universities are slowly adopting.
By Benjamin Franklin
Now in these modern times, antagonists to the for-profit sector have lifted a new banner under which to march – the nonprofit conversion.
By Tony Guida, Partner, Education Group of Duane Morris LLP
This article will discuss the major events that occurred during 2018 in the proprietary education sector, organized – for entertainment value of course – by references to Cecil B. DeMille’s movies.
By Benjamin Franklin
As history has shown, the mistakes of the British led to a great, long-term partnership which gave rise to the free world. Let’s hope that history repeats itself - that when we look back in another 250 years, we will see the significant and positive impact of private sector institutions on American higher education system.
By Benjamin Franklin
As I, Ben Franklin, reflect on how unfair laws became a rallying point for the American Patriots of my day, I see a similar trend developing in these modern times.
By Benjamin Franklin
It’s all about the economy. Our glorious revolution had a basis in the needs of our colonists to have the liberty to operate in an economy free of unfair crown regulations and taxes. Today, the attack on career schools has a similar basis in economic conditions.