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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,…
Categories Campus Leadership, Featured on eCampus News, Institutional Management, IT Leadership, Online Learning
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Senators go after ‘worthless’ college degrees

August 15, 2012August 14, 2012 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor
Three Democratic senators, including the chamber’s foremost critic of for-profit colleges, are sponsoring a bill that would bar federal student aid from being used in college programs that…
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management, IT Leadership, Online Learning
Campus Leadership

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.
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management
Campus Leadership

Senate hears ideas on keeping down college costs

August 9, 2012July 20, 2012 by From wire service reports
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Categories Campus Leadership, Featured Controlling Costs, Institutional Management
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?
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management, IT Leadership, Online Learning
IT Leadership

Federal report slams online for-profit colleges

November 30, 2011November 29, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor
Undercover investigators from the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) earned course credit while skipping classes and submitting substandard work in online for-profit college programs – findings the for-profit…
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management, IT Leadership, Online Learning
IT Leadership

Are for-profit colleges hurting online education’s reputation?

August 4, 2011August 3, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor
Congressional hearings and a barrage of criticism have put for-profit colleges on the defensive, and with many of the sector’s largest schools touting vast web-based course options, those…
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management, IT Leadership, Online Learning
IT Leadership

Senator: For-profit colleges use subprime mortgage-type loans

June 8, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
Students attending for-profit colleges are subject to subprime mortgage-like loans that saddle them with thousands of dollars in debt and waste millions in taxpayer dollars, Democratic lawmakers and…
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management, IT Leadership, Online Learning
Campus Leadership

Proposed federal rules crack down on for-profit schools

July 26, 2010July 26, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The Education Department proposed much-anticipated regulations July 23 that would cut off federal aid to for-profit college programs if too many of their students default on loans or…
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