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DeVos Allows Career Programs to Delay Disclosure to Students
Shift on gainful-employment rule is latest move by Trump administration that pleases for-profit sector but dismays its critics.
Few Solutions for Defrauded Borrowers
Student advocates say Education Department’s slow processing of borrower-defense claims and blocking of ban on mandatory arbitration put defrauded borrowers in a bind.
Protect Scholars Against Attacks From the Right
As right-wing groups scale up their attacks on higher education, colleges and universities need to take bold steps to support scholars who are being targeted, argue Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein.
Early Report on ‘Regulatory Relief’
Education Department offers glimpse at its efforts to ease burden of federal rules and asks for suggestions of which to end.
Britain Tries to Evaluate Teaching Quality
Controversial effort sorts universities into gold, silver and bronze. Some prestigious institutions didn’t get gold.
Suspended for Standing Up to Fox News?
Essex County College allegedly suspends a communications adjunct for comments about race on Fox News, but she’s fighting back with the tools of her trade.
Where Winds Are Blowing on Accreditation
At meeting of federal advisory panel, some members push accreditors to set “bright lines” for colleges’ performance, while others caution against oversimplification.
Opinion
Advancing Apprenticeships
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.