Posts by Libby Nelson
September 25, 2009, 12:00 PM ET
U.S. Census Issues Guidelines for Colleges
The U.S. Census Bureau is providing guidance to colleges and universities regarding the 2010 head count, advising them that they can give out students' directory information while remaining in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The bureau will request information about on-campus students in order to distribute census forms.
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Key Congressman Calls for Hearings on For-Profit Colleges
In response to Monday's Government Accountability Office report on loan defaults and basic skills tests at for-profit colleges and universities, the chairman of the House education committee, Rep. George Miller of California, has called for hearings on whether such institutions are "gaming the system," Bloomberg News reports. Some higher-education experts, however, noted that the report contains some positive findings about for-profit colleges, including that some of them have among the lowest loan-default rates of all colleges in the country.
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