Making videoconferencing available to students who can’t attend class in person can improve attendance and student satisfaction, according to a two-year project that took place at Indiana University. In fact, absenteeism dropped by more than half. As described in a paper about the experiment, the university used software that allowed students to call in to More Info »
Reps. Lori Trahan (D-MA) and Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) on Tuesday introduced the Financial Aid Communication and Transparency Act of 2019 — or FACT Act — a bipartisan bill created to bring some standardization to financial aid offer forms by mandating the use of standard terms and definitions, as well as requiring institutions to include a More Info »
WASHINGTON – Kelly Finlaw, a middle school art teacher at I.S. 128 in New York City, thought she qualified for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), a federal program that forgives student loans for public servants with 10 years of on-time payments. Her loan servicer at the time told her she was on track for the More Info »
Borrowers whose private student loans were discharged in court earned more, paid off other debt and were more likely to move for work, new research shows. The impact of student loan forgiveness goes far beyond a reduced debt balance for borrowers, according to a new study. Researchers from Harvard Business School, Indiana University and Georgia More Info »
Many of Connecticut’s four-year colleges have low graduation rates and some also charge low-income students considerably more than they would have to pay elsewhere, according to a report from the non-profit organization Education Reform Now Connecticut. And some of the state’s 22 schools surveyed for this study have both issues at play. “The takeaway from More Info »
East Coast Polytechnic Institute is giving students full control over their academic records with blockchain-enabled digital credentials that are sharable and verifiable anywhere in the world. It’s been just over a year since the East Coast Polytechnic Institute began issuing digital diplomas as an early adopter of blockchain technology and the Blockcerts open standard. During More Info »
High Impact Communications: Driving Innovation, Inclusion & Results SAN DIEGO, Feb. 13, 2020 — The Forbes School of Business & Technology™ at Ashford University announced today its alliance with the Executive Next Practices Institute for the upcoming Executive Next Practices Forum—High Impact Communications: Driving Innovation, Inclusion & Results. The event will be held on Friday, More Info »
BOSTON – Former University of Texas men’s tennis coach Michael Center was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for accepting $100,000 in bribes to falsely tag an applicant as a recruit to get the student admitted. He’s the first college coach to receive time behind bars in the national college admissions scandal after a More Info »
The U.S. Department of Education must act to help thousands of student loan borrowers who have severe disabilities; that’s the message of two letters sent Tuesday to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Because of their disabilities, these borrowers qualify to have their federal student loans erased. But one letter, signed by more than 30 advocacy groups, More Info »
Democrats on the House education committee are working on a bill to authorize $400 million in federal grants for apprenticeships that would double to $800 million by 2025. The 149-page “discussion draft” of the bill also would bring apprenticeship programs — including youth and pre-apprenticeship programs — under one umbrella. There’s also a good chance More Info »