Tag: Ed Department

August 18, 2023

Stanford Graduate School of Education professor Thomas Dee can breathe a lot easier; so, too, can other researchers who could imagine themselves in the same conflict with the California Department of Education. Lawyers for CDE notified Dee on Wednesday that […]

June 23, 2022

The settlement agreement could bring to a close a yearslong legal dispute over hundreds of thousands of borrower defense claims. The list of institutions whose borrower defense claimants will receive automatic relief is wide-ranging — it includes currently operating colleges, […]

May 24, 2022

The lawsuit is at least the second complaint filed against the Ed Department in recent months seeking to resolve outstanding group borrower defense claims. The borrower defense rule allows students whose institutions defrauded them to have their federal student loans […]

August 10, 2021

The Education Department cast Tuesday’s announcement as a shot across the bow at irresponsible postsecondary providers. “Schools that engage in bad behavior or that suddenly close their doors, leaving students out in the cold, will be held accountable, and we […]

May 24, 2019

National American said it asked the Ed Department to reconsider the amount of Title IV awards it would need to back with a letter of credit. The department initially asked for a letter of credit for either 50% ($36.7 million) […]

September 25, 2018

The higher education industry is not only weighing what kind of data to share with potential students and their families but also how extensive it should be. For this year’s “best college” rankings, U.S. News & World Report dropped acceptance […]

September 24, 2018

For-profit colleges in recent years have been the subject of controversy — at first drawing criticism and stricter regulations from the Obama administration for alleged unfair marketing and loan practices and, at times, the poor quality of the instruction. More […]