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University of Phoenix Continues To Excel At False Advertising – And Gets Caught
147,000 University of Phoenix (UOP) students are being sent money to make up for deceptive advertising practices. The checks being sent by the Federal Trade Commission total nearly $50 million. A lawsuit was settled in December, 2019 for $191 million with the...
How For-Profits Masquerade as Nonprofit Colleges
This article from the Century Foundation is a must-read for all of us in nonprofit higher education. And really, it should be required reading for anyone - especially - adult learners considering going back to school to complete an undergraduate degree that was...
Online education could be the answer for access for students, plus better financial position for colleges
A recent article from the New York Times looked at the effects of COVID on the college market, and why online education could be the savior for students and institutions. "Up until now, online education has been relegated to the equivalent of a hobby at most...
The Fall (Closing) of For-Profit Argosy University – Is Anyone Surprised?
Friday, March 8th, Argosy University campuses nationwide and online closed. The U.S. Education Department found that Argosy had been misusing federal financial aid funds meant for students, to pay salaries and other expenses. The misused funds totaled $13 million....
Online Enrollment at Public Universities Outpaces Privates-Infographic
According to a report published last year by the Babson Survey Research Group, enrollment in online degree programs is growing rapidly. However - there are differences by type of institution. From 2015 to 2016, online enrollment at public nonprofit colleges and...
Misleading Prospective Online Degree Seekers is Just Plain Wrong
I built Nonprofit Online Degrees because I knew there was no other website dedicated to listing online degrees from nonprofit colleges and universities. During my 15 years of higher education marketing experience, I have witnessed quite a bit of fraud and highly...
More on COVID and the future of online learning
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review - "The Pandemic Pushed Universities Online. The Change Was Long Overdue." - suggests that an already stressed traditional higher-ed model is sure to be even more quickly supplanted by online education due to COVID. While...
Covid-19 causes enrollment in online degree programs to increase
The current pandemic has changed a lot about how people are going about their daily lives. Students on the road to a higher education degree are not exempt from this change either. With the pandemic causing schools across the country to close their doors last spring...
Online Education – A Brief History
Earning any type of degree is a process that has changed over the years. With the evolution of different technologies, a student is no longer obligated to be limited by schedules or financial restrictions like they were before. Not only are online degree programs...
Can Online Education Benefit Underserved Populations?
Can Online Education Benefit Underserved Populations? Having a college degree can open many doors that are otherwise completely closed. There are countless stories of young adults from underserved communities who were the first in their family to go to college and the...
Online degrees made USC the world’s biggest social work school. Then things went terribly wrong.
University of Southern California (USC) was interested in growing its online enrollment in its school of social work. It created a new online master's degree to meet this new goal. Quickly, it grew enrollment to more than 3.500 students in 2016, becoming...
Online Doctoral Degrees From Nonprofit Colleges and Universities
Just a few years ago, most online doctoral degrees were offered only by for-profit colleges such as University of Phoenix or Devry University. However, with many doctoral programs consisting of quite a bit of reading, writing, research, and discussion, it...
Admission test scores for online degrees – US News
When looking into different online graduate analytics programs a few years ago, Laura Wood created a detailed spreadsheet listing her schools of interest. She added information about admissions requirements for each, including whether she needed to submit...
Reflecting on 2018, and (Tentatively) Projecting the Future
Just like that, another year is almost over. If it's been as much of a whirlwind for you as it has for us, you're likely struggling to make sense of all that changed on the digital learning landscape this year.
National for-profit college chain abruptly closes – USA TODAY
Dozens of for-profit college campuses across the country abruptly closed this week after their parent company lost its accreditation and funding. The schools are owned by Birmingham, Alabama-based Education Corp. of America (ECA), which runs more than 75 campuses...
Online higher education enrollment continues to grow.
While online enrollment continued to grow in 2017, on-campus enrollments fell, according to a data from the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics, published Tuesday. According to an article published by Inside Higher Ed, "The proportion of...
Colleges Fight Google Ads That Reroute Prospective Students
This article features an interview with Jeff Harmon, Nonprofit Online Degrees founder.
A few weeks ago, when Jeff Harmon searched on Google for North Arkansas College, an ad appeared next to the results that offered information about the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. Clicking on the ad took Mr. Harmon to collegesurfing.com, where he filled out a form that promised to send him material about Fort Smith…….
Students defrauded by for-profits get win.
WASHINGTON (AP) — 10/17/2018 – Students defrauded by for-profit colleges scored an important victory on Tuesday, when a court cleared the way for an Obama-era policy that will make it easier for them to get their student loans forgiven