SRHE

OCTOBER 10, 2024

by Héctor Ríos-Jara Governments across the globe are increasingly adopting student debt cancellation or forgiveness policies. But why are governments pursuing these policies, and what does it mean to cancel student debt? The logic was simple: if banks could be saved from their financial burdens, why not the people?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Education Department’s recent guidance expanding the definition of what it means to be a “third-party servicer” for institutions that receive federal financial aid funds put online program management companies, or OPMs, squarely in the center of the bull’s-eye. So no one was remotely surprised that the U.S.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

” In a letter to the board, the president described Lewis’s secrecy, hostility, and disregard for “good corporate governance,” ultimately leading to Pettit’s resignation. dominated topped the list, offering financial aid packages worth over $75,000. institutions offer students a hefty discount.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last year, the Government Accountability Office reviewed the companies and urged more scrutiny from the Education Department, finding that the agency didn’t have enough information to gauge the scale or legality of the companies’ agreements with institutions. But he doesn’t think the department has to go that far.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield, managing director of policy and research at Higher Learning Advocates, a bipartisan nonprofit that works to improve outcomes for students, said the federal government is lagging behind state leaders, who already have been talking about how to define a high-quality postsecondary program.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

From 2011 onward, the College Meltdown was most visible with for-profit colleges and community colleges, but other non-elite schools and for-profit businesses were also affected. Problems with the federal government's financial aid system may mean that a significant decline in enrollment at non-elite schools occurs this fall instead of 2025.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 2, 2024

The apparent aims were to evade the heightened government regulations applied uniquely to for-profit schools in order to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse — and to escape the growing stigma that the industry’s predatory behavior had placed on for-profits.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2025

It also announced it would seek to ban Andrew Clark, the CEO of Ashfords demised parent company, Zovio, from contracting with the federal government. In fact, at a hearing focused on Ashford way back in 2011, then-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) declared Ashford an absolute scam.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 10, 2025

The Keisers created controversy and were eventually penalized by the IRS for a shady 2011 conversion of Keiser University from for-profit to non-profit, in a deal that allowed the couple to continue making big money off the school. What exactly waste, fraud, and abuse seems to mean in the context of the Trump/Musk effort is troubling.

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