California to Tie Community College Funding to Student Success
With powerful faculty organizations and a commitment to unfettered student access to public colleges, California is perhaps the least likely state to …
Education Department Unwinds Unit Investigating Fraud at For-Profits
Members of a special team at the Education Department that had been investigating widespread abuses by for-profit colleges have been marginalized, reassigned …
Altas Partners to acquire University of St. Augustine for $400 mln
Altas Partners, a pioneer of long-life private equity investing, agreed to buy the largest educator of physical therapy professionals in the United …
Good News for Higher Ed Professionals: Faculty Salaries are on the Rise
Average salaries for full-time continuing faculty members increased by 3 percent this year over last, according to the American Association of University Professors’ Annual Report …
ACICS Recognition Reinstated
Secretary Betsy DeVos announced earlier today that the US Department of Education has retroactively reinstated the federal recognition of the Accrediting Council …
A Sector in Flux: How For-Profit Higher Ed Has Shifted
Bridgepoint Education’s decision on Tuesday to spin off its Ashford University brand has already rankled critics of the company specifically, and of the for-profit …
University Formed From Purdue’s Acquisition of Kaplan Clears Last Regulatory Hurdle
Purdue University Global, the institution formed by Purdue’s groundbreaking acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University in April 2017, received final approval from the Higher Learning …
What is The Future of For-Profit Higher Ed?
The latest of John Grisham’s New York Times bestsellers, The Rooster Bar, centers around three third-year law students who “all borrowed heavily to attend a …
College Enrollment Surges Among Low-Income Students
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once observed that nothing is permanent, except change. Such classical wisdom is once again evident in a recent release …
A New Model For Higher Ed?
Three years ago, Laureate Education lifted an obscure new class of corporations into the mainstream when it became the first public benefit corporation to …