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Transparency and Accountability: What if the Federal Gainful Employment-Debt Measures Regulations Applied to Law Schools?
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Mattox, Kari Ann – Educational Considerations, 2013
The purpose of this analysis is to compare current guidelines of the American Bar Association (ABA) for law schools to those of the U.S. Department of Education's Gainful Employment-Debt Measures regulations in order to assess their transparency and accountability. This analysis is relevant in a time of increasing tuition costs and record…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Regulation, Law Schools, Professional Associations
Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges. NBER Working Paper No. 17827
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Cellini, Stephanie Riegg; Goldin, Claudia – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
We use administrative data from five states to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the size of the for-profit higher education sector in the U.S. Our estimates include schools that are not currently eligible to participate in federal student aid programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act and are therefore missed in official…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Educational Policy
Access in U.S. Higher Education: What Does the For-Profit Sector Contribute? PROPHE Working Paper Series. WP No. 14
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Kinser, Kevin – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2009
The private sector's role in higher education access has received limited attention, though the expansion of the sector globally has immediate implications for the ability of the system to serve more students. In the U.S. case, the private sector includes both nonprofit and for-profit forms, with the for-profit institutions comparable in critical…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Private Sector, Proprietary Schools
For-Profit Colleges: Undercover Testing Finds Colleges Encouraged Fraud and Engaged in Deceptive and Questionable Marketing Practices. Testimony before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, U.S. Senate. GAO-10-948T
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Kutz, Gregory D. – US Government Accountability Office, 2010
Enrollment in for-profit colleges has grown from about 365,000 students to almost 1.8 million in the last several years. These colleges offer degrees and certifications in programs ranging from business administration to cosmetology. In 2009, students at for-profit colleges received more than $4 billion in Pell Grants and more than $20 billion in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Proprietary Schools, Enrollment Trends, Student Financial Aid
A Comparative Curriculum Analysis of an Associate Degree Program at a Corporation School, a State College and a Community College.
Baker, Jeanette S. – 1983
A comparative curriculum analysis was performed of the associate degree, electronics engineering technology programs of the DeVry Institute of Technology (DIT), a corporation-owned proprietary school in Illinois, Lake Superior State College (LSSC) in Michigan, and Mesa Community College (MCC) in Arizona. The curricula were compared in terms of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Admission Criteria, College Curriculum
Fiscal Indicators for Postsecondary Education in New York State, 1979-80 through 1983-84.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1986
Financial statistics on postsecondary education finance in New York State, including trends in both state support and sector revenues and expenditures, are assessed. Standardized fiscal information for 1979-1980 through 1983-1984 is provided for the four sectors: the State University of New York (SUNY), City University of New York, the private…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Expenditures