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Reset of Rules Aimed at For-Profits Begins

Trump administration will suspend borrower defense and renegotiate gainful employment, two Obama administration rules aimed at reining in for-profit colleges. Moves draw rebukes from Democrats and student advocates.
Opinion

For-Profit Universities 2.0

The institutions must recapture public trust and return to their roots as work force-focused innovators if they are to recover from their woes, Deborah Seymour and Michael Horn write.

Tracking Transfer in Connecticut

Bill would require the state’s public universities to release data on credit acceptance for transfer students as well as graduation rates for those students.
Opinion

Winnowing the Field

If nonprofit colleges and universities had been subjected to the same regulatory red tape in their early years as for-profit institutions have been recently, the sector would not have survived, argues William G. Durden.

New Money and New Players on Apprenticeships

Trump administration’s apprenticeship push will include call for up to $200 million in new funding, a less balky federal registration process and more participation by noncollege education providers.
Opinion

The Dehumanities

Many humanists have difficulty presenting their case because they are used to speaking one way among themselves and another way to outsiders, argue Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro.

Young, Promising and Underfunded

New analysis suggests that age bias is at play in a reduction of federal funding to early-career researchers and recommends addressing it by redirecting grant monies.

Too Close to an Oil Company?

A leading Dutch business school is accused of giving influence over the curriculum and admissions to an oil company.