Tag: college

September 6, 2023

Laura Cosgriff gets daily phone calls from local contractors looking for students to employ — and the frequency of those calls has increased in recent years. The construction technology coordinator for Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, said the […]

March 21, 2023

The New England Commission of Higher Education, or NECHE, said in January it intended to nix Bay State’s accreditation. But the for-profit institution, which has grappled with years of enrollment declines and a ballooning budget deficit, said it intended to […]

October 12, 2022

The new polling adds data points about a long-standing concern for college leaders: whether the public views higher education as affordable and worthwhile. That question has been even more important since President Joe Biden announced a wide-ranging federal student loan […]

August 23, 2022

President Joe Biden continues to mull over possible variations of wide-scale student loan forgiveness, including one plan from the U.S. Department of Education that reportedly could cover several million borrowers. That would make good on a campaign pledge Biden made […]

May 17, 2022

A few weeks before the Guild announcement, Lowe’s committed $9 million towards education of historically marginalized students to provide pathways to employment at Lowe’s. The construction vendor allocated the funds to the Charlotte Talent Initiative at Queens University’s business school, […]

February 16, 2022

Interest in colleges’ return on investment runs high because it is a key selling point for higher ed in an era of high tuition prices, substantial tuition discounts and concerns about student debt. Georgetown CEW has been working to explore […]

January 10, 2022

All 16 universities named in the lawsuit are current or former members of the 568 Presidents Group, a group formed in 1998 by more than two dozen college leaders to collaborate on a need-based financial aid system. The name references […]

August 9, 2019

Sunshine Anderson was at Mills College’s annual welcoming ceremony in 2017 when the liberal arts college revealed its big news: It was slashing its tuition by more than a third. Elated, the history major, who is now a senior, immediately […]

November 6, 2015

Source photo Earlier this summer, a video about college accreditors went viral — or at least as viral as a video on an obscure higher education policy topic can go. In the video, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) grills Albert Gray, […]