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Court Considers Questions on Education Dept.'s Partial Loan Forgiveness Plan
Jun 6, 2018
Federal judge weighs whether all Corinthian Colleges students misled by their former institution should get full relief of their student loan debt.
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Education Dept. Data Show Drop in Number of For-Profit Institutions
Jun 6, 2018
The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years.
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California Bans Travel to Oklahoma over Discriminatory LGBT Adoption Law
Jun 6, 2018
Oklahoma is the ninth state (after Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas) that has been subject to the state-funded ban.
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Reports Focus on Low-Income College Students
Jun 6, 2018
New data show that fewer than half of first-time, full-time Pell recipients receive a bachelor's degree after six years at the school where they first enrolled.
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Judge Halts Trump Administration's Partial Student Debt Relief Plan
May 31, 2018
Court rules against Education Department’s new approach to processing student loan fraud claims, ordering the agency to resume full debt relief for former Corinthian Colleges students.
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Education Dept. Delays State Authorization Rule
May 31, 2018
Agency issues another two-year delay on the implementation of its controversial state authorization regulations governing distance education programs.
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New Fix for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
May 31, 2018
Education Dept. announces temporary expansion of program to help public servants at risk of missing out on student loan forgiveness because they enrolled in the wrong repayment plan.
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Accreditation Panel to Study For-Profit Reclassifications
May 31, 2018
Critics have argued that institutions have sought to convert their tax status in order to avoid scrutiny and regulation without fundamentally changing their governance structures.
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Study Finds For-Profits Raise Tuition as Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits Increase
May 31, 2018
Researchers said that for-profit colleges changed their tuition price "to extract surpluses from their students."
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Association Comments on Bankruptcy Standards
May 24, 2018
Education Dept. to reevaluate rules that determine whether student loan debt can be discharged in bankruptcy.
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AACRAO Chimes in on New Reporting Requirements for Visa Applicants
May 24, 2018
State Dept. proposal would ask visa applicants questions about their social media usage.
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Conservative Revolt Could Fuel Push for DACA Deal
May 24, 2018
House conservatives reject GOP farm bill over intra-party feud over immigration. Defeat lends some unexpected support for an upstart effort to force a vote on legislation to protect Dreamers.
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House Republicans Huddle on HEA Reauthorization
May 24, 2018
Following Wednesday's meeting, AACRAO sent a letter to all 435 members of the House of Representatives expressing our deep concern with the PROSPER Act in its current form.
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DeVos Talks Higher Ed at House Hearing
May 24, 2018
House Democrats grill Education Secretary DeVos on a range of issues, including civil rights, for-profit college oversight, regulatory rollbacks, and other higher education issues.
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Survey Finds Support for Local Colleges
May 24, 2018
Survey paints a more complex picture than others like last year's surveys by the Pew Research Center and Gallup that showed deep skepticism about higher education among Republican respondents.
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College Enrollment Continues to Decline
May 24, 2018
The decrease follows six straight years of declining enrollment in the United States.
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DACA Debate Continues
May 24, 2018
While DACA continues to be debated by the courts and in Congress, states are grappling with what to do with those recipients who want to go to college.
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Community College Graduation Rates Increase Significantly After Tennessee Promise
May 16, 2018
The number of students who earned a degree or technical certificate through five semesters increased 60 percent from 1,790 in the 2014 cohort to 2,857 in the 2015 Tennessee Promise cohort.
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New Research on Community College Students' Transfer Plans
May 16, 2018
Data show that community college transfer students are becoming "stealth applicants," doing research on where to apply without contacting the four-year schools they are considering.
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Appeals Court Considers DACA
May 16, 2018
As three-judge panel considered whether to lift temporary injunction blocking decision to end DACA, disparaging remarks that President Donald Trump made about Latinos and Mexicans surfaced.