Institutions

NC State wants to help solve the community college leadership pipeline problem amid broader shift in focus of doctoral training programs.

In California and Pennsylvania, new institutions are created.

If the administration’s expanded apprenticeship program is to succeed, it must ensure a baseline of quality and rigor, alignment with industry standards, and equity in access and participation, writes Cassius O. Johnson.

By Cassius O. Johnson

But avoid legislation that would cap bachelor’s degree programs and create new oversight board.

A new executive order from the White House seeks to expand apprenticeships and open the door to a larger role for industry groups and alternative education providers.

Trump administration will suspend borrower defense and renegotiate gainful employment, two Obama administration rules aimed at reining in for-profit colleges. Moves draw rebukes from Democrats and student advocates.

Bill would require the state’s public universities to release data on credit acceptance for transfer students as well as graduation rates for those students.

If nonprofit colleges and universities had been subjected to the same regulatory red tape in their early years as for-profit institutions have been recently, the sector would not have survived, argues William G. Durden.

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