Proposal to automatically deduct loan payments as a share of borrowers’ paychecks promises big improvements but raises questions over some new complications, too. Student advocates have for years complained about the complex set of options borrowers must navigate to repay their student loans. Student loan borrowers are faced with a dizzying nine repayment plans based More Info »
Campus to remain open through fall 2020; current students will have the opportunity to graduate and continue receiving employment and student support services SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 18, 2019 — Universal Technical Institute (NYSE: UTI) today announced that, after 14 years and more than 6,500 graduates, its campus in Norwood, Massachusetts, is no longer accepting new More Info »
Paul J. LeBlanc remembers the day, about a decade ago, when a public research university in New England announced that it was starting an online M.B.A. Southern New Hampshire University, where LeBlanc is president, had just rolled out its own ambitious online program and started its rise from undistinguished private institution with a few thousand More Info »
Weeks into the spring semester, students at Argosy University, a chain of career schools stretching from Virginia to California, are still waiting for $13 million in federal financial aid, according to court documents. The delay is the latest development in the ill-fated acquisition of Argosy, South University and Art Institutes campuses by Dream Center Education More Info »
Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-Irvine), who is on leave as a law professor at UC Irvine, where she founded the Consumer Protection Unit, is using her expertise to intervene on behalf of struggling students caught up in the mess involving Dream Center Education Holdings, Argosy University and Western State College of Law. Porter, who holds her More Info »
ADN program marks first Nursing program offered at new campus ORLANDO, Fla.–Rasmussen College, a regionally accredited private college, today announced the expansion of its Professional Nursing Associate’s degree (ADN) program to its new Orlando campus.1 The Rasmussen College ADN program, which can be completed in as few as 18 months, prepares students to sit for More Info »
Schools create pathway program for graduates of the HBCU to attend medical school TALLAHASSEE, Fla.–African Americans make up only six percent1 of U.S. physicians. With the goal of driving diversity among U.S. physicians, today Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) and Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM) announced a new agreement to help more African More Info »
A federal judge has again dismissed a class action that former DeVry University students brought against the school, claiming they were misled by ads for the school which, they said, promised them jobs related to their degrees after they graduated. The October 2016 lawsuit from named plaintiffs Debbie Petrizzo of New York; Renee H. Polly More Info »
President and CEO of Nightingale College among specialist panel at 16th annual ABHES National Conference on Allied Health Education Nightingale College’s President and CEO, Mikhail Shneyder, has been invited to participate in a panel discussion at the 16th Annual National Conference on Allied Health Education hosted by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). More Info »
Two members of Congress are asking for an investigation into missing federal financial aid funds at Argosy University after The Arizona Republic reported students were struggling to pay bills as they awaited payments. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., wrote a letter Friday to Sandra D. Bruce, the acting inspector general for More Info »