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by R. Asmerom We’ve all seen the ads and flyers for the University of Phoenix – an online school which has apparently captivated the attention of many minority students. In the last decade, that institution and many others like it, have exploded onto the education scene and aggressively marketed to students looking for more accessible […]
(New York Times) — When Congress moved in 2008 to sweeten tuition payments for veterans, it was celebrated as a way to ensure that military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan could go to college at no cost and to replicate the historic benefits society gained from the G.I. Bill after World War II. Now, […]
(Bloomberg) — Strayer Education Inc., a chain of for-profit colleges that receives three-quarters of its revenue from U.S. taxpayers, paid Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Silberman $41.9 million last year. That’s 26 times the compensation of the highest-paid president of a traditional university. Top executives at the 15 U.S. publicly traded for-profit colleges, led […]
(LA Times) — The Education Department on Thursday issued regulations governing for-profit colleges, a rapidly expanding education sector that has been criticized in Congress for allegedly providing students with poor educations while saddling them with excessive debt. Issued after a year of negotiations, the new regulations are intended to improve the Education Department’s ability to […]
(Wall Street Journal) — More for-profit colleges than expected may be in danger of running afoul of a proposed regulation that would penalize them for graduating students with heavy debt loads. The U.S. Department of Education on Friday listed the fiscal 2009 loan repayment rates at more than 8,000 for-profit schools nationwide, in an attempt to […]