On May 9, 2019, the Department of Education published Gainful Employment Electronic Announcement #119, announcing the release of a new 2019 Gainful Employment (GE) Disclosure Template. On May 23, 2019, the Department followed up with Electronic Announcement #120, which provided additional detail regarding the GE disclosure distribution and delivery requirements for that template. On June More Info »
HLC confirmation is another milestone in the University’s more than 40-year commitment to educational excellence and institutional improvement PHOENIX, June 13, 2019 — University of Phoenix continues to meet all Criteria for Accreditation set by its institutional accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The determination by the HLC followed the mid-cycle comprehensive evaluation, which included More Info »
Public university athletic coaches and medical-school professors are Arizona’s top-paid public employees, according to public employee salary data obtained by The Arizona Republic. Of the top 10 earners for fiscal year 2018, whose pay ranged from $700,000 to $3.2 million, the four highest salaries went to football and basketball coaches at Arizona State University and More Info »
National nursing education organization approves Bachelor of Science in Nursing through June 2024 MADISON, Wis., June 11, 2019 — The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program offered at Herzing University-Madison has been approved for a five-year accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the university announced today. Accreditation by CCNE verifies that More Info »
If you’ve driven out by Grand Canyon University in west Phoenix in the past six months you may have seen what appears to be a never-ending stretch of construction on the campus’ new dorms. Practically every free bit of space around the private Christian university’s campus has been purchased by the college to build new More Info »
To bolster expanding online IT certificate program, Google plans to add career resources for students and to expand its community college partnerships and pathways to four-year degrees. More than 8,000 people have completed the eight-month Google IT support certificate program since it launched in early 2018. The certificate, Google’s first substantial foray into postsecondary education, More Info »
This is the second of two posts on the new U.S. Department of Education released in the Federal Register earlier this week. The first post focused on state authorization and student notification issues. This post focuses on several issues under the purview of accreditation. Do read down through the list of regulations as some of More Info »
James Manning, a former acting secretary of education and top executive at the Office of Federal Student Aid, will head to the lobbying and advocacy firm Penn Hill Group, the firm announced Thursday. Manning was an early appointee of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who named him to the acting under secretary post in April 2017. More Info »
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren – a 2020 presidential candidate – intends to bring her plan to “cancel” student debt for millions of Americans to Congress. Warren’s office said on Thursday she will introduce a bill, similar to what she proposed as part of her presidential platform, in Congress. Rep. James Clayburn, D-S.C., will introduce More Info »