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Education Department Announces Final Regulations Regarding Predatory Recruiting Practices Against Veterans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) has announced final rules regarding predatory recruitment practices against veterans, access to Pell Grants for incarcerated students, and accountability when colleges and universities change owners. Veterans and their families deserve the very best education America has to offer,” said U.S.

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Breaking the Assimilationist Trajectory

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alex Red Corn Title: Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Kansas State University College of Education. Age: 39 Education: B.S., education, University of Kansas; M.S., education, University of Kansas; and Ed.D., The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There’s little help on the way: The nation’s classrooms are projected to lose an average of 270,000 educators annually for the next several years, and enrollment in teacher preparation programs has plummeted. But there’s more the federal government can do. With a combined enrollment of 1.9

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Accreditation: Statement to NACIQI regarding NSAD, Ambow Education, and WSCUC

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's note: The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) was authorized and reconstituted by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. The Committee complies with all requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and Government in the Sunshine Act.

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Office for Civil Rights Commences Title VI Investigations Against 45 Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Educations (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had opened Title VI investigations into 45 universities. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. Its fundamentally at odds with what the mission of higher education should be, which is the search for knowledge that serves the common good.

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Despite regulation efforts and student complaints, this popular edtech platform marches on

University Business

With the pandemic accelerating higher education into the online space , colleges and universities have been forced to keep up with rampant student demand. Additionally, last year they acquired another popular edtech company edX, which one American business magazine listed as the third-most innovative education company of 2023.

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Washington Update: New Guidance for Higher Ed on the Build Back Better Initiativewith host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Tom Netting | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 096

The Change Leader, Inc.

Federal Government is continuing to create new guidance for higher ed on the Build Back Better initiative. Department of Education, and changing perspectives in relation to areas such as Title IX. When higher education programs align with compassion for students, student persistence and graduation rates change for the better.