President Donald Trump's recent proposal to redirect federal funding from elite universities like Harvard to trade schools signals a significant shift in the US higher education landscape. While Trump ...

The for-profit college industry is struggling under the weight of declining enrollment, stiff competition from traditional universities and an image battered by past misdeeds, even as the Trump ...

To most Americans, colleges like Grand Canyon University look pretty benign. But not to the Federal Trade Commission. Until recently, the FTC looked at this Phoenix-based institution and many others ...

The Biden administration said it is approving 18,000 loan forgiveness claims from former students of ITT Technical Institute, a chain that closed in 2016 The U.S. Education Department said Wednesday ...

It needs to be written in big, bold, flashing red neon letters: Beware of For-Profit Education. Kindergarten through college, all of it. If for-profit education is not banned outright, then we need to ...

In a Salon piece, Kai Wright explains why we all need to take a look at the economic structures that are causing degree-seeking students to take on a boatload of student-loan debt. He argues that the ...

・More than 20% of borrower defense claims involve public or private nonprofit colleges, not just for-profit schools. ・Approval rates for private nonprofit college claims are double those for ...

Today’s Senate hearing about for-profit colleges provides something to think about for anyone who feels privatization is the Great Solution to what ails the U.S. education system. We’ve already heard ...

A national consumer watchdog group is calling on Washington and other states to rein in abuses at for-profit schools and protect students from inferior educational programs that leave the students ...