Accreditation

Grand Canyon University announces another attempt at converting to a nonprofit, with plans for its holding company to partner with other colleges.

Proposed requirements for occupational therapists to have more advanced degrees to work in the field could cause problems for community colleges.

House education committee leaks its ambitious first draft of a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, with broad changes aimed at both deregulation and more accountability in how federal student aid is distributed and used.

An international buyer intends to employ faculty and staff in the future, but Rider issued the layoff notices in case the deal falls through.

Diversification bid from the two well-respected for-profits comes amid serious shake-up of the sector, which continues despite a more favorable regulatory climate.

Jamie Studley, former key Education Department official, will lead the Western region's accrediting agency, part of an industry her Obama administration bosses chastised.

A decade in the making, upgrade of the federal government’s main higher ed database enables tracking part-time and adult students and gauging graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients. Limits remain, though.

Education Department’s inspector general labels Western Governors as a correspondence-course provider, seeks reimbursement of $713 million in aid and may broadly threaten competency-based education.