For those of us in the industry this is no surprise… We hope other take notice of these FACTS and begin to value the role of the for profits withing the education industry.
Click on the link to read the article at inside highered: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/18/career
Former GE Co. Chief Executive Jack Welch is lending his name and money behind a successful educational entrepreneur Dr. Michael Clifford, injecting some star power into the budding industry of online education.
Mr. Welch is paying more than $2 million for a 12% stake in Chancellor University System LLC, which is converting formerly bankrupt Myers University in Cleveland into Chancellor University. It plans to offer most courses online. Chancellor will name its Master of Business Administration program The Jack Welch Institute.
The House Committee on Education and Labor passed The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) of 2009, H.R. 3221, this included the increase of the 90/10 rule to three years.
Maybe all of the fear mongers hovering over the industry should start to realize there is lots of good and that while some minor changes may come down, there is not much likelihood that any major overhaul will occur.
We had received many requests to create a new faculty subgroup within the forprofit edu group on linkedin. So here it is: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2111792/ The group is for any & all current, former or those who want to get a job as faculty.
Finally some sense of reality, nothing can go up & up & up without ever settling down. June search volume for edu terms remains very strong, but for the first time this year did not top the previous months activity. Still, very strong signs of continued growth for the sector as compared to year over year trends. It will be interesting to see August’s volume, as August is generally one of the strong turnaround months when dealing with the slower summer seasonality of edu lead volume in normal times that is…
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