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Reaching High School Students through Content Marketing
If you have spent any time working in or on your school’s marketing plan, you know that it can feel like a constantly moving target. The platforms, tools, and best practices that are ideal for creating a successful outreach campaign can change frequently (and sometimes unexpectedly). And that is …
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Two Orange County campuses and 11 others in the state owned by embattled for-profit education giant Corinthian Colleges must stop enrolling new students this week under an emergency order from California consumer protection officials.
Citing concerns over the school’s financial resources, mounting legal pressures and inadequate regulatory disclosures, the Bureau for Private Postsecondary …
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Today, college degrees are increasingly necessary to find rewarding, financially feasible careers.
But whether or not you end up satisfied with your overall college experience depends a lot on just a few simple factors, according to recent Gallup polling. Earlier this month, Gallup released a new analysis of the the 2014 Gallup-Purdue Index, …
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Hillary Clinton said community college should be free during a roundtable with students in Iowa on Tuesday.
“I fully support President Obama’s plan to make community college free,” the newly announced presidential contender said at Kirkwood Community College, the first official stop of her campaign.
Clinton, who is casting the first part of her …
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Students considering pursuing an online associate degree are most likely choosing between for-profit and community college options.
Traditional for-profits such as University of Phoenix and DeVry University have long been known for their online offerings, while community colleges actually serve the biggest share of exclusively online undergraduate students, according to data from the …
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Last month, fifteen students from a for-profit college chain that regulators say acted as a predatory lender began publicly refusing to pay their loans. Now, the strike has grown dramatically. As of Monday, organizers say 100 students—all of whom attended the Corinthian Colleges Inc. chain for for-profit schools—have joined the strike.
Corinthian Colleges …
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This article is by William G. Tierney, university professor and co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California, and James Dean Ward, a Ph.D. candidate in higher education at USC.
The small private liberal arts college may soon be an endangered species.
About a third of the nation’s …
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The Inner City Committee of the Portland Solidarity Network announces a massive victory at a local for-profit beauty school, which stands as a possible future for student organizing.
“Hello, my name is Kaitlin. Can I tell you about how I was suspended after reporting sexual harassment?”
Kaitlin addresses passersby with the kind of enthusiasm …
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I know a high school senior who’s so worried about whether she’ll be accepted at the college of her choice she can’t sleep.
The parent of another senior tells me he stands at the mailbox for an hour every day waiting for a hoped-for acceptance letter to arrive.
Parents are also uptight. I’ve heard …
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Executives at Apollo Education Group Inc. would love to live their marketing slogan: “I am a Phoenix.”
While the once-soaring for-profit education giant isn’t in ashes, its business has shriveled. For example, degreed enrollment was most recently 227,400 students. While that is far more than at the largest traditional U.S. university, it is …