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For Profits Are Costly for Black Students, Report Finds

A new study co-authored by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the State University of New York at Buffalo finds that the streamlined curriculum at for-profit institutions is the reason many poor students — particularly young African-Americans — drop out. The researchers studied 150 low-income black students from Baltimore and found those who attended for-profit […]

Lawmakers File Bill to Help ITT Students

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Members of the Indiana congressional delegation filed legislation to assist veterans harmed by the recent closure of ITT Technical Institute. “Thousands of veterans invested their time and educational benefits to attend ITT Tech, and now they are left without a degree or path forward,” Rep. Luke Messer said. “As part of our […]

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Starting Over May be Best for Some ITT Tech Students

St. Louis area ITT Tech students have a decision to make if they want to continue their education now that their school has closed its doors. The U.S. Department of Education is offering the students forgiveness on their federal loans, but if the students accept the offer they can’t transfer credits. That means Missouri’s estimated […]

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Closing For-Profits Could Hurt More than Help

NEVER MIND that the higher education plans of tens of thousands of students will be disrupted. Or that 8,000 people will lose their jobs. Or that American taxpayers could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in forgiven student loans. What is apparently of most importance to the Obama administration is its […]

Army Veteran Attends College with His Children

A retired Army master sergeant is beginning a new chapter in his life as a college student with his children by his side. Master Sgt. Arin Gibson Sr. retired from the Army after 25 years of service, according to an ESCC press release. This semester, he is taking classes in social work at Enterprise State […]

Center for Student-Veterans Opens at Kansas State University

MANHATTAN, Kan. — A new, private center on the Kansas State University campus aiming to help veterans transition into student life has opened. The Military Affairs Innovation Center opened September 12, The Manhattan Mercury reports. Art DeGroat, director of the university’s Office of Military and Veteran Affairs, says the center will work with other agencies […]

Senate Democrats Call for Action on Student Debt

Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) held a conference call Wed., Sept. 14 with The Racquet and other college newspapers in order to spread the word on the #InTheRed Act. The proposed legislation was created in January and would work to address the student debt crisis. The Senate […]

Norwich Joins Plan to Help Families Save Tuition Costs

NORTHFIELD, Vt., Sept. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college and birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), has joined Private College 529 Plan, a consortium of 284 colleges that guarantees a locked-in tuition rate for prospective students. College savings and pre-paid tuition plans, called 529 plans, are offered […]

Minnesota Finds 2 Schools Defrauded Students

More than 100 Rochester students may be affected by a state of Minnesota ruling that Minnesota School of Business and Globe University fraudulently marketed and recruited students. The Minnesota Office of Higher Education is moving to revoke the schools’ authorization to operate at its six locations throughout the state after a Hennepin County District Judge […]

Virginia Launches Online Portal for ITT Tech Students

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia has created a new online portal to help students impacted by the closure of the for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute. The website includes information about where students can seek loan forgiveness or continue their education at another institution. ITT shuttered all 130 of its U.S. campuses earlier this month, saying […]

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Sources: ITT Educational Services Plans Bankruptcy

For-profit U.S. college operator ITT Educational Services Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy after the U.S. government restricted financial aid to new students, according to people familiar with the matter. ITT’s move comes after it said last week it would shut its 137 technical college campuses in 39 states, where roughly 35,000 students are […]

What Comes After the For-Profits’ “Lehman Brothers” Moment?

Just as the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008 heralded a much larger economic crash, the September shuttering of the ITT Technical Institute chain of for-profit colleges signals a broad crisis in higher education. ITT, which taught electronics, computer-based design, criminal justice and other careers to 45,000 Americans last year, had collected $5 billion in […]

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