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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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This for-profit believes it’s being “targeted” by the government

University Business

The conflict between the federal government and GCU, one of the country’s largest Christian Universities in the nation, first began when it applied to be recognized as a non-profit to the Department of Education in 2019 to streamline its federal funding process. Feeling snubbed, GCU sued the Department in Jan.

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Proponents see value in Biden's free community college plan

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy. percent decline in enrollment.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The closure comes even as IWU has experienced an uptick in enrollment, which currently stands at 858—up from roughly 800 in fall 2019, according to data from the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. ” Outside observers have criticized IWU for placing blame on the governor’s office.

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Is a merger a closure by another name? (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution. While administrations at both institutions have said they would like to see the mission preserved, there are three steps both administrations must take to make sure this actually happens.

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The Colbeck Scandal (South University and the Art Institutes)

Higher Education Inquirer

(Updated January 9, 2022) In July 2019, DC lawyer David Halperin published an expose on Colbeck Capital Management, a New York-based firm tied to two failing for-profit school chains: South University (South) and the Art Institutes (Ai). Variety said Colbeck's business with Relativity Media amounted to a "Ponzi scheme. "