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Top higher-education technology news: September 2012

September 7, 2012 by From staff reports

Several leading universities have joined the open course movement in what is quickly becoming a campus revolution; for-profit colleges, which include some of the country’s largest online schools,…

Report blasts shortcomings of for-profit colleges

July 31, 2012July 31, 2012 by From wire service reports

For-profit colleges are failing their students and saddling taxpayers with an enormous bill, a two-year investigation by the Senate education committee's Democratic staff concluded.

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Students say for-profit college targeted African Americans, women in online and TV ads

July 23, 2012July 20, 2012 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

For only the second time in the U.S., a college has been formally accused of targeting minorities and women in TV and online advertisements. And a group of…

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For-profit colleges win legal battle with Obama administration

July 6, 2012July 5, 2012 by From wire service reports

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For-profit lobbying group questions federal stats after unflattering report

June 28, 2012June 27, 2012 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

The president of the country’s for-profit college association said school officials have “severe concerns” about an Education Department (ED) report that showed 5 percent of for-profits are in…

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Veterans’ groups level harsh criticism against for-profit colleges

May 22, 2012 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Veterans' advocacy groups demanded at a recent Congressional hearing that for-profit colleges stop flooding military veterans' eMail inboxes, Facebook newsfeeds, and Twitter accounts with advertisements, saying the ad…

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Republicans pounce after Obama targets diploma mills catering to military

May 6, 2012May 4, 2012 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Congressional Republicans and officials from the for-profit college industry have excoriated President Obama’s executive order meant to provide more college information to military veterans with ample federal education…

IT Leadership

Report: Technology not the answer to bolstering community college access

April 23, 2012April 20, 2012 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

More than 400,000 Americans were turned away from community colleges last year not because schools couldn’t keep up with the demand for online courses, but because deep state…

IT Leadership

Recruitment ads by for-profit colleges targeted

April 19, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

Where do for-profit colleges get the money they spend on all those highway billboards and television and radio ads?

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Vets group suspends campus chapters at for-profits

April 9, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

A leading student veterans group is suspending chapters at 40 for-profit colleges, saying it's concerned they've been set up by the colleges as shell organizations to help them…

Top higher-education technology news: September 2012

Report blasts shortcomings of for-profit colleges

Students say for-profit college targeted African Americans, women in online and TV ads

For-profit colleges win legal battle with Obama administration

For-profit lobbying group questions federal stats after unflattering report

Veterans’ groups level harsh criticism against for-profit colleges

Republicans pounce after Obama targets diploma mills catering to military

Report: Technology not the answer to bolstering community college access

Recruitment ads by for-profit colleges targeted

Vets group suspends campus chapters at for-profits

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HEA Policy Shifts Update: How Are Educational Stakeholders Responding?

Nation’s Premier Collegiate Honor Society Inducts Talethia Jean Nevaeh Gray-Nance Into Membership

How Does Higher Education Procurement Work?

Abbey Road Institute Opens State-of-the-Art Campus in Los Angeles

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