The attorneys concede in their report that some on campus felt the "very fact that the College engaged us meant that we could not be viewed as objective".
This year we will see colleges engaging much more closely with employers to develop effective training schemes for learners and small businesses.
Many colleges engage in Orwell-speak about assembling congenial communities with a variety of backgrounds and talents.
Can colleges engage communities in long-term ways and make them more sustainable and resilient by expending resources -- students, faculty members, even parts of endowments?
Niace programme manager Ian Yarroll says the inquiry will look at how colleges engage with their communities, with local businesses and local authorities.
Re "Illegal in U.S., Paid Agents Overseas Help American Colleges Recruit Students" (news article, Feb. 5): First, the headline implies that colleges engaged in commission-based international student recruitment are in violation of the law.
That, together with the government's insistence that colleges "engage" with employers to find out what skills are needed, has increased the need to employ assessors to gauge those skills, Kokes says.
When students finally get admitted, there is a paradigm shift as colleges engage in an elaborate game to maximize student enrollment.
Government and media investigations have exposed that many for-profit colleges engage in deceptive and coercive recruiting, offer high-priced, low-quality programs, and leave a high percentage of students deep in debt.
Instead, many for-profit colleges engage in deceptive recruiting and offer high-priced, low-quality programs that leave many students -- veterans, people of color, low-income parents, etc. -- jobless and deep in debt.
