I will let you decide after you read this Bloomberg article.
Obama Cracks Down on For-Profit Colleges, Links Loans to Income
U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg
The Obama administration released a proposal that would tighten for-profit colleges’ access to federal student aid, threatening growth in the industry that received $26.5 billion in U.S. funds last year.
The proposed rules released today by the U.S. Department of Education would link U.S. student aid eligibility at Apollo Group Inc., ITT Educational Services Inc., Career Education Corp. and other education companies to former students’ salaries and debt repayment rates. The rules may cut off access to federal student grants and loans at about 5 percent of all for- profit education programs, Secretary Arne Duncan said in a telephone call with reporters yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
I ran across a decent article today on online learning and time management. In fact, this is one of my mantras that I preach to the students who I instruct online. Here is an excerpt: Read the rest of this entry »
The latest scrutiny in the for-profit education space comes from one of the regional accreditation bodies and their attention directed toward ”accreditation shopping.”