Gainful Employment
Blog: Department of Education Defies its Mission with 'Discriminatory' Rule
Kevin Kuzma, Editor
Rolling up what has mostly seemed like an "unwelcome mat" to for-profit schools, the U. S. Department of Education (DOE) opened its doors to speakers from all sectors of higher education at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. yesterday for a series of public hearings on its "gainful employment" rule.
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Kevin Kuzma Let's Stick to the Facts on For-profit Colleges Regulations
As I wrote on September 23 in this space, here, the Department of Education's (DOE) attempt to put more stringent regulations on for-profit colleges is an example of good intentions gone awry. Rather than expanding college opportunities and fighting fraud, the proposed new "gainful employment" ("GE") rules would instead limit college access (especially for minority students), raise taxpayer costs, and create new obstacles for employers eager to hire qualified workers.
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The Daily Caller For-profit Colleges Oppose Tighter Regulation in U.S.
Part of a government plan to more closely regulate the for-profit education sector in the United States has been delayed, after an outcry from school supporters.
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Sept. 24 that it would move forward with most of its tighter regulations on the for-profit education sector, which are designed to protect students from misleading recruitment practices and from running up huge debts, among other issues.
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The New York Times Gainful Employment and Why it Should Apply to All Higher-Education Institutions
By Emily E. Sismour for University-bound.com
The U.S. Department of Education is trying to create a clear financial picture for students with a recently developed, not yet implemented regulation called "Gainful Employment." The Gainful Employment regulation along with many other new regulations are set to be put into action sometime in 2011. These new regulations have been conceived in response to the growing pressure over for-profit education's questionable recruitment practices.
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Ezine Mark New Rules May Hurt For-profit Colleges
Andrea Thomas tried the traditional college route.
After graduating from Ridgeland High School, she enrolled at one of the state's public universities, but she felt like a number and didn't have a base of support.
"I used to go back to my dorm room crying every day," Thomas, 22, said. "It was just too much, too fast."
She quit school and didn't know what she'd do until she saw a commercial for Antonelli College - an Ohio-based for-profit school with campuses in Jackson and Hattiesburg. She's now pursuing a graphic design degree at the Jackson site.
"It's the best decision I've ever made," she said.
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Clarion Ledger U.S. Announces Public Meetings on 'Gainful Employment'
The U.S. Department of Education announced in today's Federal Register that it will hold public meetings on Nov. 4 and 5 in Washington, where individuals and groups that submitted official comments about the department's proposed regulations on "gainful employment" can deliver oral presentations and answer questions posed to them by department employees.
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Inside Higher Ed Silencing the Cynics
We at Career College Central are proud of what we do and who we serve. Earlier this week, we distributed a video highlighting the real risks of the DOE's "gainful employment" initiative through a number of different outlets, including social media. Of the hundreds of people who have watched the video already, all but one have been 100% supportive. The following exchange happened yesterday on LinkedIn, and we found it humorous. Let this be a lesson to career college critics ... when you flaunt your bias and lack of knowledge, it won't go unnoticed or uncorrected.
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Career College Central A Closer Look At Gainful Employment
"Gainful employment" sounds like a reasonable idea. A vast majority of the 14.9 million unemployed Americans certainly aspire to it. Millions of students studying in U.S. colleges and universities hope to acquire training that will lead to it. And those of us currently holding jobs certainly want to remain a part of it.
So given that "gainful employment" is so desirable, why does the utterance of this phrase cause so much frustration and tension in the education community?
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Forbes The Gainful Employment Video
We've written extensively about the Department of Education's misguided gainful employment rule since it first became a possibility for career education. We've spoken out in blog posts, through public comments addressed to the DOE, by pointed letters to elected officials, and we asked for your help in putting together a special edition of our magazine to tell the stories of successful graduates and the employers that hire them. Now, we're speaking out in a different way.
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Career College Central Tell Your Elected Officials How You Feel about Gainful Employment
For months now, career colleges have been attacked in the media and in Washington, D.C. Our schools have been unfairly made to symbolize all that's wrong with America's education system while taking a hit for issues that also impact traditional colleges and universities. This has been accomplished with a few student anecdotes and biased investigations.
The Department of Education's proposed gainful employment rule has solely focused on career colleges, not on traditional colleges and universities. If passed, the rule could devastate the career college sector through the elimination of critical programs that are vital to the American workforce.
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