In the past year, regional accreditors have cracked down on some for-profit institutions, including Ashford University, which in seven years morphed from a 300-student Catholic school in Iowa into a massive online institution serving nearly 90,000 students.
It is, primarily, a regional institution, serving students whose relatives or friends have attended.
Yet when a high-income student is five times more likely to have a degree by age 24 than a low-income student, our challenge is to work to make sure institutions and policies better serve the new majority of college students today - working students, older students, first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color.
Jerome says his institution serves students well and that his sector is being unfairly singled out by the rule.
Research and training at institutions serving minority students may suffer as top students leave for other schools each summer.
The institution, which will open once its accreditation has been secured, will be a part of the University of Texas System and is expected to start out with 28,000 students, making it among the county's largest institutions serving primarily Hispanic students.
A number of smaller, like-missioned universities merging into larger institutions serving students nationwide.
The ECCSE focuses on recruitment and training of U.S. citizens in science fields (NSF, 2005) and encourages "young people's interest in science, prepare(s) them for science-related careers, and increase(s) science literacy among all students, including nonscience majors" (HHMI; www.hhmi.org/grants/institutions). SURE began by serving students working with biomedical sciences faculty.
Rather, most of these early learning institutions served academically talented students whose parents could afford to have their child pursue secondary education.
Brown IMSD established partnerships with institutions serving significant numbers of UR students.
Similar institutions serving a range of traditionally underserved students may benefit from cross-departmental programs of support such as the one created by GRANT.
