Wal-Mart University � The Quick and the Ed

Wal-Mart University � The Quick and the Ed

Wal-Mart University

by Renee Rybak

In case you hadn’t heard, Wal-Mart’s getting into the higher education business. It’s partnering with the for-profit American Public University to offer college courses to employees at a discount. With the typical wage at Wal-Mart starting around $10/hour, employees who take advantage of the program will

Gainful Employment Hysteria

by Ben Miller

Many in the higher education community have spent the past weeks with bated breath, knowing that any day the U.S. Department of Education is going to release its rules on gainful employment. These regulations (large PDF of the proposed changes) are expected to introduce a new system that would cap the amount of federal loans students take out to attend a strictly vocational program, such as cosmetology, court reporting, etc. The idea is to protect students from programs that prepare students for professions with relatively low expected incomes that would be unable to support an overly large debt burden.
Specifically, the proposal is expected to cap the borrowing for students in these programs such that their annual