NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Court Legal Access & Student Support (CLASS) Act prohibits any school receiving Title IV student aid funding from placing restrictions on students’...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) An old adage teaches, ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.’ In recent months, the troubled Accrediting Council...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Phoenix, which runs an online college popular among military veterans, is under federal investigation for possible...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Exotic dancers hired as admissions counselors. Recruiters told to seek out “impatient” individuals who have “few people in their...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Each year the many forms and products of predatory lending drain at minimum hundreds of billions of dollars from the...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has ruled in favor of tough new regulations aimed at career training programs, dealing a major...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government plan to wipe out loans for many of the students who attended the now-disgraced for-profit Corinthian Colleges...
Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will erase much of the debt of students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, about 1.7 million people will receive their bachelor’s degrees, and another nearly...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The most common model of college attendance is that a young person who graduates from high school and heads directly to...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For-profit colleges with graduates unable to pay back their student loans could soon face scrutiny by the federal...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Weeks before the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) announces a new rule governing career education programs, the Center for Responsible Lending...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A college education is supposed to open the doors to life-long careers and entry into America’s middle class. Yet, students that...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Are you tired of complaining to family and friends about things you feel powerless to change? Or, as college costs continue...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist History is full of great dreamers. The United States has certainly prospered from some of the greatest. Blacks can...
[Time] Loan payments for some 8,000 programs, designed to propel students straight into careers but often landing them in worse debt than high school dropouts, will...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed suit Wednesday against a large, for-profit college chain alleging that it pushed...
