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Education Department Announces Final Regulations Regarding Predatory Recruiting Practices Against Veterans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Veterans and their families deserve the very best education America has to offer,” said U.S. Today, we’re raising the bar for oversight and accountability for colleges and career schools that prioritize profiting off federal financial aid programs over preparing students for success in the workforce,” said U.S.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. But there’s more the federal government can do. Helping schools of education produce more teachers is only one half of the equation.

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Thoughts on ED’s New Guidance on Revenue Share Arrangements and Third-Party Servicers (TPS)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.

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Beyond ideological debates, a focus on process (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Lately, university governing boards around the country have been considering the balance and diversity of intellectual scholarship in the institutions they oversee. That takes us to issues of higher education governance—a process that is often tediously slow and too often inefficient but nevertheless the way we do business today.

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Washington Update: Higher Ed Policy, Regulations, and Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 182 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Tom Netting

The Change Leader, Inc.

Washington Update Key Discussion Points: Higher Education Act 2019 Changes : Emphasis on the need for a comprehensive review of the act, touching on Title II (teacher education), Title IV (federal student financial aid), and Title IX (campus security). and how these will impact institutions and students.

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Predatory Colleges, Converted To Non-Profit, Are Failing (David Halperin, Republic Report)

Higher Education Inquirer

The apparent aims were to evade the heightened government regulations applied uniquely to for-profit schools in order to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse — and to escape the growing stigma that the industry’s predatory behavior had placed on for-profits.