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AG Healey Secures Nearly $300,000 for Students of Online For-profit School

Settlement Provides Payments for Certain Former Ashford University Students and Resolves Allegations That School Charged Excessive Fees and Provided Inadequate Disclosures BOSTON — A former online for-profit school will pay nearly $300,000 to settle allegations that it unfairly imposed excessive technology fees on students and failed to make proper disclosures, Attorney General Maura Healey announced More Info »

CECU Responds to OIG Report on Sale of Postsecondary Institutions to Dream Center Foundation

Arlington, Va. — In response to a report released by the Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General which found that the Department took unprecedented actions before and after the sale of Education Management Corporation institutions to the Dream Center Foundation, Career Education Colleges and Universities released the following statement from President and CEO Dr. More Info »

‘Terrible, Old News’ – Inside Higher Ed

More than half of CUNY community college students drop out within three years without a degree and struggle with hefty nontuition costs, a new report found. These are long-standing problems system leaders have tried combat. Few people were surprised by a recent report highlighting how heavy nontuition costs were driving low graduation rates among community More Info »

Mass. AG Maura Healey announces new Student Loan Ombudsman to help ‘struggling borrowers’ – Mass Live

Student loan borrowers in Massachusetts will have a new resource to handle complaints or problems as they struggle to get out of debt, Attorney General Maura Healey announced on Thursday. Healey has appointed Arwen Thoman, deputy director of her office’s Insurance and Financial Services Division, to the newly established role of Student Loan Ombudsman as More Info »