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Community Colleges

Education Company Settles with Justice Department

An education company will pay about $1.3 million under a civil settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve allegations it employed unqualified instructors at its Texas campuses.

January 6, 2015

Students

Tackling Affordability Issue, Stillman College to Lower Costs

Stillman College plans to reduce its cost of attendance by about $5,000 in fall 2015 in the hope that making higher education more affordable will attract more students.

January 5, 2015

Students

Missionary Flight School Set to Take Off

There’s a revolution happening in Keystone Heights.

January 4, 2015

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Diverse Conversations: Gainful Employment for College Graduates

Colleges and universities have their own sets of standards for graduating students and helping them find success out in the real world but there is not a streamlined process across states or the nation.

December 30, 2014

Sports

Friends University Plans New Tuition Strategy

Friends University in Wichita is planning a new tuition strategy that it hopes will encourage more students to graduate in four years.

December 29, 2014

Students

West Virginia Higher Ed Changes to Help Students

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia higher education leaders are finalizing policy changes to help students more easily transfer college credits and earn degrees. The changes were approved by the state Higher Education Policy Commission and the state Council for Community and Technical College Education within the last two months. The proposed rules state that a […]

December 28, 2014

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College Sees Small, Big Benefits with Loan Promise

Adrian College is among the first colleges to take out insurance policies on every incoming freshman and transfer student who have student loans and at least two years of school remaining.

December 28, 2014

Students

HBCU Stakeholders List Financing Programs, Affordability as Top Issues

The 2014 State of HBCUs Report reflects concern about the health of the institutions in the wake of shrinking enrollment and a fairly steady decline in federal funding.

December 28, 2014

HBCUs

In Case You Missed It…

Experts Divided Over Impact of Absent Father-themed College Admission Essays New Fund for Low-Income California Students Enables Donor Tax Breaks  Department of Education Criticized for Not Using Accreditor Sanction Data Do Community College Credentials Pay Off?

December 26, 2014

Community Colleges

‘Draft Framework’ of new college ranking system for something other than football revealed

How will your school stack up in terms of providing access to low-income students? Academic outcomes? Will the rankings even be fair?

December 21, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Judge to Resign as Ohio State University Trustee in Ethics Deal

A federal judge will resign his seat as an Ohio State University trustee and teach two semesters of law school classes without pay to resolve an ethics investigation over his law school teaching job, under an agreement announced Thursday.

December 18, 2014

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Audit: Finances Put Cheyney University’s Future in Doubt

Pennsylvania’s auditor general says the future of the nation’s first historically Black university is in doubt amid rising debt and falling revenue and enrollment.

December 17, 2014