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More than one in five borrowers of federal student loans who attend for-profit colleges default within three years of beginning repayment, new figures made available by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday show.

Officials at for-profit colleges and universities are facing a chorus of public criticism after accusations of shady student recruiter practices and a U.S. Department of Education report that showed twice as many students at for-profit schools have defaulted on their college loans as students attending nonprofit and public colleges and ...

DON BURNARD has been appointed center dean of DeVry University in Bakersfield. Formerly a teacher, principal and program coordinator with the Kern County Office of Education, Burnard comes to DeVry from Point Loma Nazarene University, where as director he opened the school's Bakersfield Regional Center.

D eep into this recession, we know that an increasing number of people no longer can pay their mortgages, their credit card balances or their car loans.

Federal education officials are worried about the default rate of student loans at for-profit colleges, and many students from these schools are running into trouble paying back their loans.

The nation's governors are urging state-run community colleges to consider modeling some of their programs after private career colleges, saying those for-profit schools are adept at focusing students on job skills in demand and keeping them on educational track.

Online colleges and Universities have earned their right to be considered serious degrees.

More than one in five borrowers of federal student loans who attend for-profit colleges default within three years of beginning repayment, new figures made available by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday show.

Two-and-a-half years after state regulators took their eyes off about 1,700 for-profit and vocational colleges, a new agency is set to pay attention once again - but with some major exceptions.

Among the stock activity stories for Wednesday, Dec. 9, from AP Financial News: NEW YORK A- Shares of Sprint Nextel Corp.

A 20-year-old DeVry University student is charged with breaking and entering and stealing from a high school.

Starting in the second half of the 2009 fall semester, Webster University offered 325 online courses and had more than 6,600 online students enrolled worldwide.

This photo shows the entrance to the DeVry University in Miramar, Fla. Students aren't the only ones benefiting from the billions of new dollars Washington is spending on college aid for the poor.

Gary Primack has listed for sale a four-bedroom, 2.5-bath home at 7405 Chorleywood Way in Las Vegas for $325,000. Primack paid $600,178 for the property in June 2005.

The Illinois Department of Veteransa Affairs partnered with American Airlines to host a Helping Our Hometown Heroes Veteransa resource fair at American Airlines offices at Oa Hare Airport last week.

Columbus officials have been working for years to keep college graduates in the city, and a Chicago nonprofit is stopping by Wednesday to show what's at stake: Dollar signs.

As more business is conducted online and additional files are stored on remote servers rather than in local filing cabinets, keeping private information secure has become increasingly more complex and complicated.

The DeKalb County Board of Health's Office of Emergency Preparedness will host a mass novel H1N1 vaccination clinic on Saturday, Nov., 21 at the former campus of DeVry University.

Calling all Chicagoaons in the job market...Out of a Job? In transition? Come enjoy an evening of help and support! And best part, it's free unlike many of the networking events in the city.

Citing a recent rise in street violence, students at a South Side rally Sunday called on state and federal leaders to expand job and internship programs in an effort to redirect at-risk youth.