A few months ago I was in Chile, where I was invited to lecture on issues in higher education. The moment I arrived, I was struck by how important the subject is in Chile, where it has a pervasive presence in everyday life.
Representatives of for-profit colleges stepped up their criticism Monday of the Education Department’s efforts to rewrite the “gainful employment” rules that would apply to their institutions and vocational programs at community colleges.
Chile’s National Accreditation Commission has rejected the appeal of a university affiliated with the Baltimore-based for-profit education company, Laureate, after it was denied reaccreditation in October. The Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA) next plans to appeal the decision to the country’s Higher Education Council. As in the U.S., universities in Chile must be accredited in order for their students to access government-backed loans and grants.
María Olivia Monckeberg, antes de que estuviera en la agenda pública, denunció el lucro en la educación chilena. La periodista y escritora, quien ha publicado dos libros sobre esta problemática, conversó con CNN Chile sobre los detalles de su tercera publicación, titulada "Con Fines de Lucro".
The lobbying group of America's for-profit colleges, APSCU, announced today that Michael Dakduk is its new Vice President of Military and Veterans Affairs. Dakduk had just left the job of executive director of the Student Veterans of America (SVA). You heard that right.
Benny Napoleon finally made it to WDET's Craig Fahle Show Friday morning and, during a discussion about marijuana policy, the Wayne County Sheriff touted his credentials, not only as law enforcement veteran, but also as a criminal justice professor. He didn't mention that he taught at the for-profit University of Phoenix.
IN his 2011 TED talk, Gene Wade thus shared his vision of an ultra low-cost college degree for working adults. As of today, he has raised $42 million in venture capital for his new company, UniversityNow, and its two for-profit universities, Patten and New Charter. The first students started in the spring. Around the same time, Forbes magazine named Mr. Wade the most disruptive figure in education.
Strayer Education announced Thursday that it would close about 20 physical campuses, mostly in the Midwest, to cut costs in response to a 17 percent year-over-year enrollment drop that has sharply reduced its revenues.
Jobs website SEEK is selling its stake in a private colleges firm to a multinational higher education group with ties to former US president Bill Clinton.
For the second time in two years, Congress is trying to close a loophole that allows for-profit colleges and universities to collect billions of federal dollars in tuition from veterans.
If universities are unable to adapt to new technologies, they will eventually have to face the reality of the free market, which could favor a for-profit system, according to Jane Shaw, president of the Pope Center for Higher Educational Policy.
Once the hottest things in higher education, private, for-profit colleges and universities have suddenly found themselves on the business equivalent of academic probation.
Are nonprofit schools a better deal for returning veterans than for-profit schools? A study by the Mississippi Center for Justice finds that since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 14 percent of $83 million in GI Bill funds spent for education in Mississippi went to for-profit schools, but those schools enrolled only 7 percent of student-veterans. Veterans spent $2,933 per student more at for-profit schools than at private nonprofit schools, $11,900 more than at community colleges, and $10,321 more than at traditional public colleges and universities.
The U.S. Department of Education has signaled it wants to be more aggressive in policing for-profit colleges by proposing rules that would make it easier to cut off funding to low-performing schools and, in some cases, force colleges to help borrowers who are stuck with large debts and low earnings.
The Federal Trade Commission is getting tougher with for-profit colleges, opening a new front in the latest Obama administration-led attempt to crack down on the sector.
"Con fines de lucro" es el nuevo libro de la periodista María Olivia Monckeberg que busca revelar "la escandalosa historia de las universidades privadas en Chile" en el que se revelan nuevos casos de irregularidades en las finanzas entre las instituciones de educación superior.
Nuevamente el Ministerio de Educación decidió dilatar la entrega de los resultados de las investigaciones administrativas que la cartera inició hace cerca de un año contra la Uniacc y la Universidad Pedro de Valdivia por supuesto lucro en el que habrían incurrido ambas casas de estudios superiores y que paralelamente también son indagadas por el Ministerio Público.
“Hay que asegurar que ningún peso público pueda terminar incrementando el lucro que está prohibido”, afirmó el Rector Víctor Pérez, quien cuestionó las altas sumas de dinero que reciben las universidades privadas, sin control fiscal.
Adding to its commitment to the American retail industry as a vital sector of the country's economy, University of Phoenix, one of the nation's largest private universities, and Stein Mart today announced a new scholarship program for employees of the nationwide retailer.