For about fifteen years, from 1995 to 2010, enrollments grew rapidly in the for-profit higher education sector, but since then have fallen substantially. The reason for the decline is mainly … Continue reading “How Bad Is For-Profit Higher Education, Actually?”
On December 19, the U.S. Department of Education announced that as of the end of the year, it would no longer allow students to use federal aid money at the … Continue reading “No More Federal Student Aid Money for Charlotte School of Law”
Accreditation is supposed to act as a quality guarantee for colleges and universities, but it works very poorly. Students can and regularly do graduate from accredited schools without having learned … Continue reading “Will We, at Last, Do Something About Accreditation?”
Foremost among the criticisms of the way our administrative law system works is that bureaucratic agencies get to act as lawmaker, judge, jury, and executioner all rolled into one. That … Continue reading “The Education Department Gives ITT the Death Penalty”