Sat.Aug 19, 2023

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Department of Education Fails (Again) to Modify Enrollment Projections

Higher Education Inquirer

The US Department of Education continues to forecast higher education enrollment gains for 2023 to 2031 despite mounting evidence that it will decrease significantly. For several years, graduate enrollment and online courses kept total enrollment numbers from appearing more dramatic. But we cannot expect these ameliorating factors to continue propping up higher ed enrollment.

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Does for-profit Florida Career College have a chance to stay open? - Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Higher Ed Dive

Economics and Change in Higher Education

The U.S. Department of Education caused a stir in April when it declared it would bar a major for-profit college in Florida from participating in federal financial aid programs. The Education Department accused Florida Career College, or FCC, of helping students with answers on a test that allows them to qualify for federal student aid, as well as allowing them to break exam rules.

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Dickinson State looks to cut tenured faculty in massive academic restructuring - Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Higher Ed Dive

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Stephen Easton, president of Dickinson State University, wants you to know that the North Dakota public college is not in financial crisis. On its face, that makes his decision to pursue a massive rework of the university’s academic operations, announced Wednesday, appear a little strange, he said in an interview. Easton maintains, though, that distilling the university’s nine academic departments into four schools, and cutting a yet-to-be-determined number of tenured faculty members, is necessa

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