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

July 6, 2021 Jenny

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 »

Adtalem (ATGE) Surges 8%: Is This an Indication of Further Gains? – Yahoo! Finance

July 6, 2021 Jenny

Adtalem Global Education Inc. ATGE shares ended the last trading session 8% higher at $39.61. The jump came on an impressive volume with a higher-than-average number of shares changing hands in the session. This compares to the stock’s 0.8% loss over the past four weeks. Shares of Adtalem witnessed a solid price appreciation following the More Info »

Aggressive Collections for Students but Not Institutions? – Inside Higher Ed

July 6, 2021 Jenny

A report by the National Student Legal Defense Network highlights how the Department of Education seeks to collect debt from student borrowers while appearing to not put the same energy into collecting debt from hundreds of institutions. Nearly 1,300 institutions of higher education owe around $1.2 billion in debt to the Department of Education. Even More Info »

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

July 2, 2021 Jenny

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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 »

Pell for (Very) Short-Term Credentials – Inside Higher Ed

July 2, 2021 Jenny

A community college system leader and a higher education policy expert discuss the pros and cons of expanding the main federal financial aid program to include eight-week vocational programs. Congress recently opted not to fold into federal legislation on research and innovation a provision that would have made Pell Grants available to learners in very More Info »

The Rise Of Skills-Based Hiring And What It Means For Education – Fobes

July 2, 2021 Jenny

The pandemic broke some old conventions and accelerated other trends. One convention that, for many tech employers, fell by the wayside was requiring degrees for every position. A trend that accelerated during the pandemic was skills-based hiring. For decades, degree requirements have been added to more and more jobs. The degree ratchet increasingly screened out More Info »

‘Terrible, Old News’ – Inside Higher Ed

July 2, 2021 Jenny

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

July 2, 2021 Jenny

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 »

Florida governor signs bill shielding colleges from coronavirus lawsuits – Higher Ed Dive

July 2, 2021 Jenny

Dive Brief: A bill that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed this week protects public and private colleges from lawsuits seeking refunds if they moved instruction online or limited on-campus activities during the pandemic. The liability shield has narrow exceptions, including if a college acted in bad faith or kept information from students that caused harm. More Info »

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

Adtalem (ATGE) Surges 8%: Is This an Indication of Further Gains? – Yahoo! Finance

Aggressive Collections for Students but Not Institutions? – Inside Higher Ed

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

Pell for (Very) Short-Term Credentials – Inside Higher Ed

The Rise Of Skills-Based Hiring And What It Means For Education – Fobes

‘Terrible, Old News’ – Inside Higher Ed

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

Florida governor signs bill shielding colleges from coronavirus lawsuits – Higher Ed Dive

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