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Highlights of Distance Education Enrollment Trends from IPEDS Fall 2014
Published by: WCET | 12/21/2015
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released the third year of Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data that reports Distance Education (DE) student enrollment for the Fall of 2014. This is […]
New Gainful Employment Regulations Tied to State Authorization
Published by: WCET | 10/30/2014
This morning, the U.S. Department of Education released a 945 page document describing its new “Gainful Employment” (GE) regulations. An informal version is available on the Department’s website and the final version will be published in the Federal Register on […]
Clearing Misconceptions in Distance Ed Enrollments by Sector: IPEDS Reality Check
Published by: WCET | 3/19/2014
March 19, 2014 Let’s play a game. What percentage of all distance education enrollments occur in for-profit institutions? In private, non-profits? In public institutions? Hold onto your guesses as we’ll get to the answers later in this blog post. The […]
For-Profit Hearing: Legislation Might Include All Colleges & Greed is Good
Published by: WCET | 9/30/2010
“I can assure you that this committee will be exploring legislative changes.” That statement came from Sen. Tom Harkin (IA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee at the end of the third hearing on for-profit […]
Senate ‘For-Profit’ Hearings: We ALL Need to Pay Attention
Published by: WCET | 7/21/2010
If you have not heard about it, there are several links below to coverage of the U.S. Senate’s hearing last week regarding for-profit institutions. I could not make it to DC for the hearing, but I followed the tweets and […]