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More Faculty Use Flipped Classroom

Technology presents opportunities for students to more efficiently submit work and engage in learning exchange. In the flipped classroom method, this is a key asset for developing competency-based models of progress and learning, as students can work independently with material and demonstrate, at their pace, mastery of a subject. More importantly, the method allows students […]

October 18, 2016

Texas Prepares for For-Profit Fallout to Spread

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The state’s Higher Education Coordinating Board is preparing for the ITT Technical Institute fallout to spread to other for-profit colleges across the state. Raymond Paredes, the Commissioner of Higher Education, gave KXAN an update on for-profit schools. Over the summer, ITT Tech caved in because the federal government would not back student […]

October 18, 2016

Charts Show Collapse of For-Profit Education

In 2012, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions produced a scathing review of for-profit colleges and universities, spotlighting a culture of bringing in millions while students paying for education with federal loans were failing to get jobs or even complete degrees. That report would bring about increased scrutiny of some of […]

October 18, 2016

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Students Learn of Career Point Closing by Email

SAN ANTONIO – Career Point has sent out an email to their students saying they are closing their campus. The college says effective immediately that they are closed. President and CEO Larry Earle said in the email that the management team found three employees had violated the rules related to student aid funds. He goes […]

October 18, 2016

Minority Students Less Likely to Attend Top Public Colleges

Black and Latino students in the U.S. are far less likely than their peers of other races to attend elite public universities, according to a new study. The Center for American Progress, a think tank in Washington, D.C., analyzed federal data from 2014 to compare the types of public colleges students of different races attended. […]

October 18, 2016

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For-Profits Draw Disproportionately Among Minority Groups

When federal leaders discuss the predatory practices used by for-profit institutions to recruit and exploit students for federal aid money, this is the underreported statistic that families and students do not typically hear. And with these stats is the harrowing reality that many of these students, already saddled with debt which the federal government has […]

October 18, 2016

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Military Friendly Institutions Competing for Veterans

Institutions are striving to compete for the growing number of transitioning military students, estimated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to number 1.1 million.

October 17, 2016

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Hiring warriors in higher ed

Like many employers, higher ed institutions are reaching out to military veterans to fill skilled positions. Military service offers rich opportunities for individuals to develop a wide variety of skills that translate to well-paying jobs in the civilian world. However, deciphering a veteran’s work history is tricky. Resumes may be cluttered with military jargon, acronyms […]

October 14, 2016

Why the For-Profit Model is Unsustainable

At the heart of the education industry is the notion that what takes place in the learning environment is the key to student success and eventually, positive outcomes. But it is the individual work of students and families which influences these factors, which now drive financing and confidence in both the public and for-profit sectors. […]

October 14, 2016

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Pilot Program at Fort Hood Customizes Transition

Fort Hood is one of six installations selected for a pilot program that could customize the transition process for Soldiers. Starting Oct. 1, Soldiers at six selected installations will phase into the two-year Soldier for Life – Transition Assistance Program Pilot that customizes the transition process for the Soldier. “The Army believes there is a […]

October 14, 2016

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FAMU Gets Veterans Entrepreneurial Program

TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) – An organization that focuses on helping Veterans announced that Florida A&M University will participate in a statewide entrepreneurship program for Veterans. Veteran Florida Executive Director, Bobby Carbonell, announced Wednesday that they had selected two more schools to participate in a program for Veterans seeking to start their own businesses. FAMU and […]

October 14, 2016

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Noodle Partners Inc. Raises $4 million to Help Colleges Online

Noodle Partners Inc., a new education venture from the founder of The Princeton Review and 2U Inc., John Katzman, has raised $4 million in venture funding to help colleges and universities deliver high-quality certificate and degree programs online. Philadelphia-based Osage Venture Partners led the investment in Noodle Partners and was joined by New Markets Venture […]

October 14, 2016

DeVry Agrees to Drop Job Claim from Ads

DeVry University has agreed to stop advertising a claim about the success of its students that had been challenged by the federal government. The Education Department announced a settlement with DeVry on Thursday after saying the for-profit college chain couldn’t support one of its marquee claims. DeVry had advertised that 90 percent of its graduates […]

October 14, 2016

For-Profit Schools Miss the Mark

We live in a free enterprise system that has helped make the United States a great economic power. We enjoy a standard of living that is the envy of the world. I believe in the strength of the free enterprise system as a business model. However, the model has not transferred well into the service […]

October 13, 2016

Donnelly: No Veteran Should Lose Out After ITT Tech’s Closing

Granger, Ind. — U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly asked Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Bob McDonald to confirm that the bipartisan Veterans First Act—legislation that Donnelly has cosponsored—would enable the VA to restore GI Bill benefits for veterans who were enrolled at ITT Tech at the time of ITT’s closure in September 2016. In the […]

October 13, 2016

Veterans Reunited With Families After Training

Veterans from across the country have come to train at Airstream Renewable Resources for jobs in wind energy. But they couldn’t necessarily afford to move their families to Tehachapi upon completing their education and landing a local job. That’s where Veterans Collaborative Services comes in, Tehachapi City Councilman Ed Grimes shared during the Tehachapi Rotary […]

October 13, 2016

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Campus Provides Haven for Veterans

Brick walls and wide archways pave the way to an isolated part of campus, one that is only available to an exclusive group of the Wilkes community. Specifically, to those who have served our country. To many students, the basement of Conyngham Hall is a place they may never step foot in their four years […]

October 13, 2016

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An Education Researcher’s Take on Financial Aid

In 2015, Goldrick-Rab came under fire on Twitter for her criticism of various higher education policy changes instituted in the state of Wisconsin, where she was at the time a professor at the state’s flagship university, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In the wake of the vicious Twitter war, Goldrick-Rab, who has long been a fierce […]

October 13, 2016