Friday, September 15, 2023

Fraud Claims Against University of Phoenix Continue to Grow

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The Higher Education Inquirer received a FOIA response today from the US Department of Education stating that 73,740 consumer fraud claims h...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Student Loan Repayments Have Restarted (New Jersey Citizen Action)

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Earlier this summer the Supreme Court had denied President Biden the option to cancel $10K - $20K of federal student loan debt. As a result...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Student Loans and a Brutal Lifetime of Debt (Dahn Shaulis and Glen McGhee)

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The US Department of Education is holding more than 900,000 student loans that are at least 30 years old. Tens of thousands of these loans o...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Student Debt Relief Tool (Debt Collective)

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Yesterday, we launched a new tool that files an appeal to the Department of Education to cancel each borrower’s student debt. All of the deb...
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Saturday, August 19, 2023

Department of Education Fails (Again) to Modify Enrollment Projections (Dahn Shaulis and Glen McGhee)

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For more than a decade, the US Department of Education (ED) has forecasted higher education enrollment numbers, projecting 10 years in advan...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

University of Phoenix and the Ash Heap of Higher Ed History

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 (Updated September 14, 2023) The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US higher education history--...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Campus and Learning Site Closings Nearing 20,000

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Since 1984, more than 19,000 campus and learning sites have been reported as closed. Over the last generation, night schools and satellite c...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

A People's History of Higher Education in the US

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[Editor's Note: What we saw today at the US Supreme Court--with the end of affirmative action in college enrollment--is horrible but not...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Robocolleges, Artificial Intelligence, and the Dehumanization of Higher Education

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In 2019, the Higher Education Inquirer began writing about the ruthless automation of academic work. We were looking for information on how ...
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Friday, May 26, 2023

When will US higher ed revenues peak? #collegemania

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Despite more than a decade of enrollment losses , US higher education revenues were never higher than in 2021--the latest year for which the...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Sharing a Dataset of Program-Level Debt and Earnings Outcomes (Robert Kelchen)

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[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the Kelchen on Education blog.] Within a couple of hours of posting my comments on the...
Friday, May 12, 2023

OPM Market Landscape And Dynamics: Spring 2023 Updates (Phil Hill)

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Editor's Note:  This article first appeared in Phil Hill's On EdTech Blog .  Wow. Just wow – the last twelve months have been someth...