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Politics and lobbying play a significant part in the history of U.S. for-profit school growth. [28] [29] The for-profit education industry has spent more than $40 million on lobbying from 2007 to 2012. [30] and $36 million since 2010. [31] For-profit education lobbying grew from $83,000 in 1990 to approximately $4.5 million in its peak year of ...
Access to higher education has characterized by some as a rite of passage and the key to the American Dream. Higher education presents a wide range of issues for government officials, educational staff, and students. Financial difficulties in continuing and expanding access as well as affirmative action programs have been the subject of growing ...
[11] and, with Simmons, in their 2014 compilation Professors and Their Politics. [21]: 25–26 They strongly criticized what they saw as conservative political influence on the interpretation of data about faculty political views, arising from activists and think tanks seeking political reform of American higher education.
In 2020, higher education lost 650,000 jobs or about 13 percent of the workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, despite an infusion of federal funds. [68] The number of US postsecondary institutions receiving Title IV funding has dropped from 7,253 in 2012–2013 to 5,916 in 2020–2021. [69]
Mar. 5—There's a special irony in the West Virginia Legislature calling for a national constitutional convention over fiscal responsibility when the state can't even pass a full budget this ...
Virginia is one of just a handful of states that holds major elections in off years, so while special elections to replace state Sens. John McGuire, R-Goochland, and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Loudoun ...
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Doug Collins [126] February 5, 2025 (Confirmed February 4, 2025, 77–23) [RC 11] Todd B. Hunter [31] January 20, 2025 February 5, 2025 Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Paul R. Lawrence: Awaiting Senate Confirmation Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Memorial Affairs) Sam Brown [127]
Calls for Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do to resign have increased from local officials amid a looming federal probe.