On-Site Instruction Resumes on a Limited Basis in Accordance with State & Local Guidelines WEST ORANGE, N.J., Aug. 3, 2020 — Lincoln Educational Services Corporation (NASDAQ: LINC), a national leader in specialized technical training for more than 20 hands-on career fields, announced that it has re-opened its Queens, NY campus today and has resumed on-site More Info »
Transition Highlights College’s Commitment to Helping Students Achieve Their Educational Goals Safely WEST COVINA, Calif.—In the wake of the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, North-West College (NWC) is moving its programs online to allow students to begin and complete their classes from their safety of their own homes. This alternate delivery enables the College to institute social More Info »
As college students and professors decide whether to head back to class, and as universities weigh how and whether to reopen, the coronavirus is already on campus. A New York Times survey of every public four-year college in the country, as well as every private institution that competes in Division I sports or is a More Info »
HOPEWELL, Va. (WRIC) — With nations around the world facing a rising need for more ventilators due to the coronavirus outbreak, health facilities in Virginia are trying to prepare for a shortage. Bryant & Stratton Richmond Campus is lending their nursing program ventilator that they typically use for simulation courses to John Randolph Medical Center More Info »
The coronavirus pandemic has left higher-education leaders facing difficult decisions about when to reopen campuses and how to go about it. Since April, The Chronicle has tracked individual colleges’ plans, generating a list of more than 1,250 institutions. Now The Chronicle is partnering with Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative (C2i), which has collected reopening plans More Info »
Senators call for strong accountability policies to ensure funding meant to aid students is protected from predatory for-profit colleges Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. — United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), along with Senators Sherrod Brown More Info »
The coronavirus has colleges and universities swinging into action to move courses online. In the coming weeks, we’ll find out just how prepared (or not) academe is to do this on a large scale. Those of us in online teaching and educational technology have moved quickly to help, too, and it’s astonishing how many helpful More Info »
According to the law, institutions have 30 days to publicly disclose information on how much funding they received from the federal government and how they’ve allocated that emergency aid to students. But the US Department of Education (Department) seems wholly uninterested in enforcing that provision of the law, offering sparse and confusing guidance to schools More Info »
WASHINGTON – President Trump signed into law S. 3503, March 21, which will enable the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to continue providing the same level of education benefits to students having to take courses online due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The law gives VA temporary authority to continue GI Bill payments uninterrupted in More Info »
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the labor market, with more than 40 million Americans who have filed for unemployment. Even as some states have attempted to reopen their economies, allowing 4 million people to head back to work, the unemployment rate still hovers around 16%. And we’re still in the early More Info »