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Agriculture Department Attempts to Keep Rural Colleges and Universities Afloat

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some of these schools had not been able to get money from conventional lenders or had fallen under financial scrutiny from the Department of Education (ED) due to precarious budgets. Iowa Wesleyan University, one school that the USDA has been aiding, has had an estimated $55.1

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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In recent years, several public universities have absorbed formerly massive for-profit colleges in a series of controversial deals. A few years later, in 2020, the University of Arizona, a public land-grant institution, purchased for-profit Ashford University in a deal that included roughly 35,000 students—all online.

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Reflections on 2018 and Predictions for 2019: with Drumm McNaughton | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 012

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However, the more relevant reason for many of these closures is the lifecycle and current operating environment of higher education. Some of those mergers were huge ( Purdue acquiring Kaplan , Strayer acquiring Capella, National University System acquiring Northcentral ). We continue to see higher education closures.