July 12, 2002

Education Dept. to Emphasize Retention in Next Higher Education Act

By ANNE MARIE BORREGO

The U.S. Education Department will emphasize student-retention rates and other issues of interest to for-profit colleges as it works with Congress in the next year to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, a top department official said last month at the annual meeting of the Career College Association.

Sally Stroup, the department's assistant secretary for postsecondary education, said major issues that the Education Department will examine also include accreditation,

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