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Download full textUS House of Representatives, 2022
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor that was held to examine ways to improve accountability and prevent fraud in for-profit college conversions. Member statements were provided by: (1) Honorable Robert C. Scott, Chairman, Committee on Education and Labor; and (2) Honorable Virginia Foxx,…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Prevention, Legislators, Accountability
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Direct linkWeikun, Wang; Dexiang, Zhang – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
The key task in the establishment of a university charter is ensuring that the text of the charter is in conformity with the law, in compliance with regulations, and rational. This paper proposes a system of observed indicators for textual expression in private university charters in China, including 6 dimensions for Level 1 indicators and 20 key…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Compliance (Legal), Laws, Undergraduate Students
Fox Garrity, Bonnie – Higher Education Quarterly, 2015
Postsecondary education in the United States is provided by public, not-for-profit and for-profit institutions. Public and not-for-profit institutions are expected to serve the public good due to state control or chartering requirements; for-profit institutions are not. Therefore, the decision to serve the public good is vested in the board. The…
Descriptors: Trustees, Higher Education, Administrator Role, Advisory Committees
Gonzales, Roberto G. – Harvard Educational Review, 2015
The situation of undocumented immigrant youth is one of the most important issues today. Since the introduction of the federal Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act in 2001, their circumstances have captured the attention of the American public as well as the academic community. Fourteen years have passed without any…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Public Policy, Tuition, Federal Legislation
Waggoner, Michael D., Ed.; Walker, Nathan C., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2018
From the founding of Harvard College in 1636 as a mission for training young clergy to the landmark 1968 Supreme Court decision in "Epperson v. Arkansas," which struck down the state's ban on teaching evolution in schools, religion and education in the United States have been inextricably linked. Still today new fights emerge over the…
Descriptors: Religion, Public Schools, Parochial Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
LeBahn, Lori R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to describe college and university screening practices involving applicants with prior criminal convictions. The study also examined the institutional reasons to screen or not screen for prior criminal convictions and determined if the practice varied by institutional demographics. The study also focused on how the…
Descriptors: Safety, Institutional Mission, Criminals, Laws
Suspitsin, Dmitry; Suspitsyna, Tatiana – European Education, 2007
This study examines the strategies that Russian private colleges and universities use to navigate the legal and normative pressures of the state in the free market of educational services. The tension between state control and free enterprise is analyzed through the prism of legitimacy as it is produced and maintained by the system of quality…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Design, Qualitative Research, Free Enterprise System
