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Accreditor emerging for intellectual disabilities programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Students in these programs are eligible for Pell Grants, though not federal student loan aid. Since 2010, the federal government has funded model demonstration programs known as Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability, or TPSID, sites.

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Education Department to use secret shoppers to catch colleges lying

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices.

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The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 4: Student Issues

The Change Leader, Inc.

The graphic includes gender, age, type of school, race, financial aid, housing, dependents, learning environment, employment, and enrollment. So, between 2008 and 2010, the total fertility rate fell by about ten percent, and then since then it’s drifted down even further.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. And the Federal Government requires that, look, if we’re going to give you a lot of money, we want you to uphold certain minimum standards. But we as the Federal Government don’t want to be in the business of telling everybody what to do.

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Secret Shopper Policy Draws Praise, Concern

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Department of Education’s announcement last week of a secret shopper program to investigate the recruitment, enrollment, and financial aid practices of schools has garnered mixed reactions. While advocates of access hailed the policy, the for-profit sector and financial aid offices raised worries.

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Feds Cancel Debts for 261,000 Students of Disgraced School Now Run by U. of Arizona (David Halperin)

Higher Education Inquirer

It also announced it would seek to ban Andrew Clark, the CEO of Ashfords demised parent company, Zovio, from contracting with the federal government. Ashford has been sued or investigated by other federal and state agencies, including the U.S. The Biden Department of Education announced today it has approved $4.5

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For-Profit College Barons Backed Trump, But Now May Be Scared (David Halperin)

Higher Education Inquirer

law from federal taxpayer-supported student grants and loans. For-profit schools have received literally hundreds of billions in these taxpayer dollars over the past two decades, as much as $32 billion at the industrys peak around 2010, and around $20 billion annually n0w.