CECU News
Steve Gonzalez, Senior Vice President of Government, Military, and Veterans Relations visited Capitol Hill Republican and Democrat offices to discuss CECU policy concerns with the College Affordability Act and its impact to CECU member schools. CECU's government relations team continues to engage with Republican and Democrat offices to build a bipartisan coalition that will support CECU member schools and reject policies detrimental to CECU member schools and the population they serve.

CECU News
Steve Gonzalez, Senior Vice President of Government, Military, and Veterans Relations attended a small breakfast meeting with Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM-01) to discuss the House of Representatives' top policy priorities in 2020 before the November elections. Her policy priorities related to higher education and workforce, the College Affordability Act's impact to CECU member schools, seeking her support to address CECU's policy concerns with Chairman Bobby Scott and other members of the House Committee on Education & Labor, and discussing ways for Rep. Haaland and her staff to engage with CECU member schools in her congressional district. Attending events like this small breakfast and engaging with Republican and Democrats alike to build a bipartisan coalition to support CECU member schools.

CECU News
CECU's Steve Gonzalez, Senior Vice President of Government, Military, and Veterans Relations met with Senator Carper's senior staff to discuss the Protect Veterans' Education and Taxpayer Spending Act of 2019 (S. 2857, better known as the Carper bipartisan 90/10 compromise). The discussion revolved around finding a potential waiver compromise to S. 2857 and identifying time for Senator Carper and his senior staff to meet with key CECU member schools that would be negatively impacted by S. 2857 without amending the bill to include a 90/10 waiver.

CECU's Career Education Blog
No HEA Reauthorization? Try Regulation!
The Higher Education Act (“HEA”), the federal law governing higher education in the U.S., has not been updated in over a decade. The most outdated aspect of higher education today is the federal policy under which most postsecondary schools operate. We’ve modernized who we teach, when we teach, and how we teach. However, the federal policy stays the same. Why? Polarization in Congress.

Education News
What Happened to Colleges at Risk of Closing? – Robert Kelchen
In that piece, titled “Where 3 Accountability Measures Meet, A Hazardous Intersection,” I used a brand-new data source from the U.S. Department of Education combined with two other existing measures to identify private nonprofit and for-profit colleges that may be at high risk of closing.
 
Codecademy has already outlived many rivals — is that enough? – Tech Crunch
Codecademy, the New York-based online interactive platform that offers coding classes in a wide variety of programming languages, is a little like background noise; it’s been operating reliably since founder Zach Sims created the company while still a Columbia University student in 2011.
 
Facial Recognition Surveillance on Campus – Inside Higher Ed
UCLA was the first university to openly consider facial recognition technology for security surveillance. The university abandoned that plan, but other colleges may be using the software.
 
Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? – Education Next
Given that many of these students never complete a certificate or degree, advocates have begun to refer to remediation as a “bridge to nowhere.” Thus, policymakers looking to increase postsecondary enrollment and completion have put their focus on lessening the delays created by remedial course requirements.
 
Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future – The Hechinger Report
The setting is the Sandbox ColLABorative, the innovation arm of Southern New Hampshire University, on the fifth floor of a downtown building with panoramic views of the sprawling red brick mills that date from this city’s 19th-century industrial heyday. 

Education News
What Happened to Colleges at Risk of Closing? – Robert Kelchen
In that piece, titled “Where 3 Accountability Measures Meet, A Hazardous Intersection,” I used a brand-new data source from the U.S. Department of Education combined with two other existing measures to identify private nonprofit and for-profit colleges that may be at high risk of closing.
 
Codecademy has already outlived many rivals — is that enough? – Tech Crunch
Codecademy, the New York-based online interactive platform that offers coding classes in a wide variety of programming languages, is a little like background noise; it’s been operating reliably since founder Zach Sims created the company while still a Columbia University student in 2011.
 
Facial Recognition Surveillance on Campus – Inside Higher Ed
UCLA was the first university to openly consider facial recognition technology for security surveillance. The university abandoned that plan, but other colleges may be using the software.
 
Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? – Education Next
Given that many of these students never complete a certificate or degree, advocates have begun to refer to remediation as a “bridge to nowhere.” Thus, policymakers looking to increase postsecondary enrollment and completion have put their focus on lessening the delays created by remedial course requirements.
 
Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future – The Hechinger Report
The setting is the Sandbox ColLABorative, the innovation arm of Southern New Hampshire University, on the fifth floor of a downtown building with panoramic views of the sprawling red brick mills that date from this city’s 19th-century industrial heyday. 

Education Politics and Policy
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faces another lawsuit for overturning an Obama-era rule – Yahoo Finance
A group of consumer advocates filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education (ED) for revising an Obama-era rule that was designed to protect students who were defrauded by predatory schools.
 
Secretary DeVos Expands Earn and Learn Opportunities for Students at 190 Schools through Federal Work-Study Reform Initiative
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today the creation of a new initiative that allows more students to gain on-the-job experience with employers in their field of study as part of their Federal Work-Study (FWS) program.