Director of Nursing – Miami $85K
Salary: $85K
Benefits: Yes
EDUCATIONAL/SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
Master’s degree in nursing or health related field required.
B.S.N. required.
Current FL Nursing license required.
Prefer several years of teaching experience; prefer experience in postsecondary education.
Must have minimum of 3 years of management experience.
This position is responsible to specific academic programs of the college. Supervisor abilities are a necessity since this person will assist in hiring and training of specific faculty members who will teach in the Coordinator area of responsibility.
*Email resume in a Word doc attachment to hshepard@dshefrin.com WE PAY REFERRAL FEES!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION – Miami $75K
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION – Miami $75K
Salary: $75K
Benefits: Yes
Relo: Yes – but prefers local candidates
The Director of Education should be very knowledgeable in his/her area. He/She is responsible for the entire academic arena in the college: Department Chairs, faculty members, and student body.
EDUCATIONAL/SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
Master’s degree required.
Must have experience in postsecondary education field.
Minimum 5 years’ of management experience in the for-profit sector required.
*Email resume in a Word doc attachment to hshepard@dshefrin.com WE PAY REFERRAL FEES!
Salary: $75K
Benefits: Yes
Relo: Yes – but prefers local candidates
The Director of Education should be very knowledgeable in his/her area. He/She is responsible for the entire academic arena in the college: Department Chairs, faculty members, and student body.
EDUCATIONAL/SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
Master’s degree required.
Must have experience in postsecondary education field.
Minimum 5 years’ of management experience in the for-profit sector required.
*Email resume in a Word doc attachment to hshepard@dshefrin.com WE PAY REFERRAL FEES!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Rules may tighten in regulating for-profit colleges
denver and the west
Rules may tighten in regulating for-profit colleges
The for-profit industry has boomed, and critics want more controls to keep schools honest.
By Greg Griffin The Denver Post
Posted: 01/18/2010 01:00:00 AM MST
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Imagine an industry in which the federal government guarantees up to 90 percent of revenue, sales are recession-proof and profit margins regularly run in the double digits.
That describes the for-profit college business, which has grown from a small player in education a decade ago into a force that captures more than $12 billion in annual revenues and 10 percent of the nation's college students.
Once limited to trade and professional-development programs, for-profit schools now offer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, many of them through online programs.
The largest companies in for-profit education are publicly traded corporations that collectively earned more than $1.4 billion in profits during the last fiscal year, up 34 percent from a year earlier.
"It's not that difficult to make money in post-secondary education if you've got the right business model," said Kevin Kinser, an associate professor with the University at Albany, State University of New York, who has studied for-profit colleges.
"You have a limited set of courses, a standardized curriculum and a teaching staff of working professionals. Then you recruit like hell," he said. "The more enrollments, the more money you make."
Critics point to lax regulation as another reason for the industry's rapid growth, and they're looking to the Obama administration to crack down.
The U.S. Department of Education recently proposed reining in questionable recruiting and tuition practices, sending shock waves through the industry. Rising defaults on government-backed student loans — a sign that fewer students are getting their money's worth from their degrees — are putting additional pressure on for-profit colleges.
"Some of these schools are realizing the gig is up. They're under a more serious regulatory threat, and they're trying to clean up their act," said Stephen Burd, editor of Higher Ed Watch, a public-policy blog published by the Washington-based New America Foundation. "The question is whether the market will allow that because it means smaller enrollment and less excitement on Wall Street."
Most of the publicly traded education companies have campuses in Colorado, with familiar names such as the University of Phoenix, DeVry University, Colorado Technical University, ITT Technical Institute and Everest College.
Also thriving in the state are dozens of privately owned schools, including Westwood College, which is based in Denver; College America; and Heritage College.
About 35,000 students attend federally approved for-profit colleges in Colorado.
Some rules set in early '90s
Online growth has been particularly strong for these schools. Colorado Technical University added 5,400 students to its online school during the past year, accounting for a third of the growth at its 114,000-student parent company, Chicago-based Career Education Corp. CTU's "on-ground" enrollment grew by 800 students.
Today's for-profit education industry — led by the Apollo Group's University of Phoenix, with 443,000 students — evolved in the 1990s from a field of small, privately owned, locally focused trade schools.
Then, as now, schools heavily recruited low-income students and reaped profits largely from government-backed student loans and federal grants. Regulations were sparse, and abuses were widespread.
Fraudulent recruiting practices, high loan-default rates and low levels of graduation and placement sparked a series of scandals that prompted lawmakers and regulators to clean up the industry. Congress in the early 1990s instituted rules that persist in some form today.
At least 10 percent of school revenues must come from sources other than government loans and grants. Regulators also monitor how many graduates default on their student loans after two years.
Schools with default rates above 25 percent for three years running can lose federal student-aid funding.
The government also established more-stringent accreditation standards, which led to the expansion of the trade-oriented schools into degree-offering programs that fuel their growth today.
Private-equity investors saw the industry's potential and began buying up and consolidating schools, eventually spinning them off as public companies. Public ownership put the schools under the eye of the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as the Department of Education, but it also made them answerable to the constant demands of Wall Street for earnings growth.
The differences between traditional and for-profit schools are many: For-profit students are more likely to be minorities from low-income families; schools are apt to be in a strip mall; professors are working professionals.
Perhaps the most fundamental differences have to do with money. For- profits collect almost all their revenue from tuition and pay taxes on that money, unlike public universities, which receive public subsidies, and nonprofits, which are tax-free and have endowments. As a result, for-profits focus intently on enrolling and retaining as many students as they can.
That creates a different kind of organization, one that observers say has advantages and disadvantages compared with traditional colleges. On the positive side, for-profit colleges offer curricula, schedules and learning systems designed for student convenience.
"There is nothing inherently wrong with a for-profit model for education, and there's nothing wrong with that model tapping into government resources," Kinser said. "Many institutions do this with integrity. We have profit-making in hospitals; why not in education?"
Misplaced focus?
But Kinser is concerned that for- profit schools focus too much on enrolling students as opposed to graduating them and that the system rewards the industry for it. The money they receive from the government should be more strongly tied to graduation rates and other performance measures, he said.
Education companies typically spend a quarter of their revenue on marketing — far more than traditional universities. They also spend millions on lobbying to hold off attempts to increase regulation.
Nonetheless, regulators are moving to close a loophole that lets schools give raises twice a year based in part on the number of students enrolled. Regulators also have threatened to begin withholding funds from colleges that can't demonstrate that tuition costs and student debt levels are reasonable compared with what graduates can expect to earn.
These moves have alarmed the industry and investors, though it's unclear how far the Obama administration will push new regulations. The Education Department is working with a panel of interested parties — including representatives from public, nonprofit and for-profit schools, as well as consumer and student advocates — to craft new rules governing oversight.
Education-industry analyst Corey Greendale of First Analysis Corp. in Chicago said companies that provide job-training-certificate programs would be hardest hit by the proposal to link tuition to future earnings. Tuition caps might cause those companies to stop offering those programs, he said.
"Price controls are never a good thing for any industry," he said.
But Rich Williams, a higher-education associate with the Public Interest Research Group in Washington who is on the panel reviewing the regulations, said he sees the proposal as an effective way to weed out companies that offer bogus or overpriced degrees.
"The good actors won't be affected by this," he said.
Another area in which for-profits face scrutiny is the high-interest student loans provided by some schools. These unregulated private loans carry interest rates of up to 18 percent and have grown in volume in recent years, in part because of the tightening of credit since the financial crisis.
Westwood College carries about $20 million in student-owed debt on its books, officials said. Westwood charged students 18 percent interest on their financing but lowered that to 10 percent Nov. 1.
Rules may get tougher
Congress is beginning to focus its attention on for-profit schools. Under consideration are measures to allow students to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy — something barred currently — and to clamp down on abuses in direct lending by schools.
For-profit colleges also face pressure to disclose more information to prospective students about job-placement rates and graduate starting salaries. If the schools don't provide it, the government may require it, said Greendale, the analyst.
"Consumers are going to demand that kind of information. You can't just have a flashy website claiming 'We offer great careers,' without giving more," he said.
Some investors have turned against the industry, betting its profits and stocks will fall once the government clamps down. Jim Chanos, a hedge- fund investor who has shorted for- profit education stocks for several years, told MSNBC last spring that the companies are due for a fall because they're over-reliant on government funding and don't provide value to their customers.
"The problem is (that) the cost of these for-profit degrees is so onerous and kids are coming out with so much debt, I just don't know empirically they're any more employable than they were before going in," Chanos said.
Even with tighter regulations, the for-profit college business is unlikely to stop growing soon. President Barack Obama is calling for more Americans to go to college, and community colleges are turning students away.
"Overall," Kinser said, "for-profits are pretty well positioned to take advantage of the push to expand post- secondary education."
Greg Griffin: 303-954-1241 or ggriffin@denverpost.com
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14213656?source=email#ixzz0d03zguhs
Rules may tighten in regulating for-profit colleges
The for-profit industry has boomed, and critics want more controls to keep schools honest.
By Greg Griffin The Denver Post
Posted: 01/18/2010 01:00:00 AM MST
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Imagine an industry in which the federal government guarantees up to 90 percent of revenue, sales are recession-proof and profit margins regularly run in the double digits.
That describes the for-profit college business, which has grown from a small player in education a decade ago into a force that captures more than $12 billion in annual revenues and 10 percent of the nation's college students.
Once limited to trade and professional-development programs, for-profit schools now offer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, many of them through online programs.
The largest companies in for-profit education are publicly traded corporations that collectively earned more than $1.4 billion in profits during the last fiscal year, up 34 percent from a year earlier.
"It's not that difficult to make money in post-secondary education if you've got the right business model," said Kevin Kinser, an associate professor with the University at Albany, State University of New York, who has studied for-profit colleges.
"You have a limited set of courses, a standardized curriculum and a teaching staff of working professionals. Then you recruit like hell," he said. "The more enrollments, the more money you make."
Critics point to lax regulation as another reason for the industry's rapid growth, and they're looking to the Obama administration to crack down.
The U.S. Department of Education recently proposed reining in questionable recruiting and tuition practices, sending shock waves through the industry. Rising defaults on government-backed student loans — a sign that fewer students are getting their money's worth from their degrees — are putting additional pressure on for-profit colleges.
"Some of these schools are realizing the gig is up. They're under a more serious regulatory threat, and they're trying to clean up their act," said Stephen Burd, editor of Higher Ed Watch, a public-policy blog published by the Washington-based New America Foundation. "The question is whether the market will allow that because it means smaller enrollment and less excitement on Wall Street."
Most of the publicly traded education companies have campuses in Colorado, with familiar names such as the University of Phoenix, DeVry University, Colorado Technical University, ITT Technical Institute and Everest College.
Also thriving in the state are dozens of privately owned schools, including Westwood College, which is based in Denver; College America; and Heritage College.
About 35,000 students attend federally approved for-profit colleges in Colorado.
Some rules set in early '90s
Online growth has been particularly strong for these schools. Colorado Technical University added 5,400 students to its online school during the past year, accounting for a third of the growth at its 114,000-student parent company, Chicago-based Career Education Corp. CTU's "on-ground" enrollment grew by 800 students.
Today's for-profit education industry — led by the Apollo Group's University of Phoenix, with 443,000 students — evolved in the 1990s from a field of small, privately owned, locally focused trade schools.
Then, as now, schools heavily recruited low-income students and reaped profits largely from government-backed student loans and federal grants. Regulations were sparse, and abuses were widespread.
Fraudulent recruiting practices, high loan-default rates and low levels of graduation and placement sparked a series of scandals that prompted lawmakers and regulators to clean up the industry. Congress in the early 1990s instituted rules that persist in some form today.
At least 10 percent of school revenues must come from sources other than government loans and grants. Regulators also monitor how many graduates default on their student loans after two years.
Schools with default rates above 25 percent for three years running can lose federal student-aid funding.
The government also established more-stringent accreditation standards, which led to the expansion of the trade-oriented schools into degree-offering programs that fuel their growth today.
Private-equity investors saw the industry's potential and began buying up and consolidating schools, eventually spinning them off as public companies. Public ownership put the schools under the eye of the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as the Department of Education, but it also made them answerable to the constant demands of Wall Street for earnings growth.
The differences between traditional and for-profit schools are many: For-profit students are more likely to be minorities from low-income families; schools are apt to be in a strip mall; professors are working professionals.
Perhaps the most fundamental differences have to do with money. For- profits collect almost all their revenue from tuition and pay taxes on that money, unlike public universities, which receive public subsidies, and nonprofits, which are tax-free and have endowments. As a result, for-profits focus intently on enrolling and retaining as many students as they can.
That creates a different kind of organization, one that observers say has advantages and disadvantages compared with traditional colleges. On the positive side, for-profit colleges offer curricula, schedules and learning systems designed for student convenience.
"There is nothing inherently wrong with a for-profit model for education, and there's nothing wrong with that model tapping into government resources," Kinser said. "Many institutions do this with integrity. We have profit-making in hospitals; why not in education?"
Misplaced focus?
But Kinser is concerned that for- profit schools focus too much on enrolling students as opposed to graduating them and that the system rewards the industry for it. The money they receive from the government should be more strongly tied to graduation rates and other performance measures, he said.
Education companies typically spend a quarter of their revenue on marketing — far more than traditional universities. They also spend millions on lobbying to hold off attempts to increase regulation.
Nonetheless, regulators are moving to close a loophole that lets schools give raises twice a year based in part on the number of students enrolled. Regulators also have threatened to begin withholding funds from colleges that can't demonstrate that tuition costs and student debt levels are reasonable compared with what graduates can expect to earn.
These moves have alarmed the industry and investors, though it's unclear how far the Obama administration will push new regulations. The Education Department is working with a panel of interested parties — including representatives from public, nonprofit and for-profit schools, as well as consumer and student advocates — to craft new rules governing oversight.
Education-industry analyst Corey Greendale of First Analysis Corp. in Chicago said companies that provide job-training-certificate programs would be hardest hit by the proposal to link tuition to future earnings. Tuition caps might cause those companies to stop offering those programs, he said.
"Price controls are never a good thing for any industry," he said.
But Rich Williams, a higher-education associate with the Public Interest Research Group in Washington who is on the panel reviewing the regulations, said he sees the proposal as an effective way to weed out companies that offer bogus or overpriced degrees.
"The good actors won't be affected by this," he said.
Another area in which for-profits face scrutiny is the high-interest student loans provided by some schools. These unregulated private loans carry interest rates of up to 18 percent and have grown in volume in recent years, in part because of the tightening of credit since the financial crisis.
Westwood College carries about $20 million in student-owed debt on its books, officials said. Westwood charged students 18 percent interest on their financing but lowered that to 10 percent Nov. 1.
Rules may get tougher
Congress is beginning to focus its attention on for-profit schools. Under consideration are measures to allow students to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy — something barred currently — and to clamp down on abuses in direct lending by schools.
For-profit colleges also face pressure to disclose more information to prospective students about job-placement rates and graduate starting salaries. If the schools don't provide it, the government may require it, said Greendale, the analyst.
"Consumers are going to demand that kind of information. You can't just have a flashy website claiming 'We offer great careers,' without giving more," he said.
Some investors have turned against the industry, betting its profits and stocks will fall once the government clamps down. Jim Chanos, a hedge- fund investor who has shorted for- profit education stocks for several years, told MSNBC last spring that the companies are due for a fall because they're over-reliant on government funding and don't provide value to their customers.
"The problem is (that) the cost of these for-profit degrees is so onerous and kids are coming out with so much debt, I just don't know empirically they're any more employable than they were before going in," Chanos said.
Even with tighter regulations, the for-profit college business is unlikely to stop growing soon. President Barack Obama is calling for more Americans to go to college, and community colleges are turning students away.
"Overall," Kinser said, "for-profits are pretty well positioned to take advantage of the push to expand post- secondary education."
Greg Griffin: 303-954-1241 or ggriffin@denverpost.com
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14213656?source=email#ixzz0d03zguhs
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Phoenix Serves as Education's 'Global Capital'
Phoenix Serves as Education's 'Global Capital' This February
Former Vice-President Al Gore to Deliver Keynote Address at Education Conference
PHOENIX, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The best and brightest innovators and innovations of the education world will soon gather at the Phoenix Convention Center. Hosted by the Scottsdale, Arizona-based EDU Research Group (www.edurg.com), the EduRG Conference 2010 will be held February 27-28, 2010, providing a venue for students, teachers, businesses and technology to work together for the betterment of higher education.
Featuring a keynote address by former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, speakers and workshops covering all aspects of education, and hundreds of exhibitors displaying the latest in education-based products and technology, the Conference is guaranteed to have something for anyone seeking to further their education, improve their teaching methods, or showcase their school or business.
"If you are looking for that competitive edge and an opportunity to network with some of the online education industries' biggest companies, then the EduRG Conference 2010 is a must-attend event," said Jason Lokkesmoe, Director of International Online Media for the Apollo Group, Inc. "You will find through the combination of speakers, workshops, panel discussions and networking that this event is not one you will want to miss."
Students are encouraged to attend the Conference, free of charge, to meet representatives from participating colleges and universities. In turn, academic institutions will have the opportunity to recruit prospective students, while meeting the top Education product and service providers in the country. Businesses are offered brand exposure, partnership opportunities and access to high-level Education executives from around the globe. For more information on becoming an exhibitor, visit http://www.edurg.com/events/ai/exhibitor.asp.
In addition to Gore's keynote address, other featured speakers at the Conference will include Eastman Kodak Company Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President, Jeffrey Hayzlett; CAIVIS CEO & Founder and Chairman of XL Education Corporation, David A. Steinberg; Grand Canyon University CEO, Brian Mueller; Ryerson University Director of Digital Education Strategies, Keith Hampson and General Counsel for the US Department of Education, Charlie Rose.
Sponsors for the EduRG Conference 2010 include NanoProfessor, the Career Education Corporation, YourDegree.com, Geary Interactive, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the Business Marketing Association and the Arizona Technology Council, Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Arizona Department of Commerce. Academic Partners include the University of Phoenix, Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, Colorado Technical University, and Pearson eCollege. For sponsorship and partnership opportunities, email info@edurg.com, or visit www.edurg.com.
About The 2010 EDU Research Group Conference 2010
The EduRG Conference 2010 is the nation's largest venue for exhibiting and interacting face-to-face with decision-makers and influencers in the Education industry. We invite you to exhibit your products and services to the administrators and decision-makers expected to attend this conference. The event will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center in downtown Phoenix from February 27-28, 2010. For more information, visit http://www.edurg.com .
SOURCE EDU Research Group
RELATED LINKShttp://www.edurg.com
Former Vice-President Al Gore to Deliver Keynote Address at Education Conference
PHOENIX, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The best and brightest innovators and innovations of the education world will soon gather at the Phoenix Convention Center. Hosted by the Scottsdale, Arizona-based EDU Research Group (www.edurg.com), the EduRG Conference 2010 will be held February 27-28, 2010, providing a venue for students, teachers, businesses and technology to work together for the betterment of higher education.
Featuring a keynote address by former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, speakers and workshops covering all aspects of education, and hundreds of exhibitors displaying the latest in education-based products and technology, the Conference is guaranteed to have something for anyone seeking to further their education, improve their teaching methods, or showcase their school or business.
"If you are looking for that competitive edge and an opportunity to network with some of the online education industries' biggest companies, then the EduRG Conference 2010 is a must-attend event," said Jason Lokkesmoe, Director of International Online Media for the Apollo Group, Inc. "You will find through the combination of speakers, workshops, panel discussions and networking that this event is not one you will want to miss."
Students are encouraged to attend the Conference, free of charge, to meet representatives from participating colleges and universities. In turn, academic institutions will have the opportunity to recruit prospective students, while meeting the top Education product and service providers in the country. Businesses are offered brand exposure, partnership opportunities and access to high-level Education executives from around the globe. For more information on becoming an exhibitor, visit http://www.edurg.com/events/ai/exhibitor.asp.
In addition to Gore's keynote address, other featured speakers at the Conference will include Eastman Kodak Company Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President, Jeffrey Hayzlett; CAIVIS CEO & Founder and Chairman of XL Education Corporation, David A. Steinberg; Grand Canyon University CEO, Brian Mueller; Ryerson University Director of Digital Education Strategies, Keith Hampson and General Counsel for the US Department of Education, Charlie Rose.
Sponsors for the EduRG Conference 2010 include NanoProfessor, the Career Education Corporation, YourDegree.com, Geary Interactive, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the Business Marketing Association and the Arizona Technology Council, Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Arizona Department of Commerce. Academic Partners include the University of Phoenix, Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, Colorado Technical University, and Pearson eCollege. For sponsorship and partnership opportunities, email info@edurg.com, or visit www.edurg.com.
About The 2010 EDU Research Group Conference 2010
The EduRG Conference 2010 is the nation's largest venue for exhibiting and interacting face-to-face with decision-makers and influencers in the Education industry. We invite you to exhibit your products and services to the administrators and decision-makers expected to attend this conference. The event will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center in downtown Phoenix from February 27-28, 2010. For more information, visit http://www.edurg.com .
SOURCE EDU Research Group
RELATED LINKShttp://www.edurg.com
Friday, January 8, 2010
Director-Atlanta, GA $90K + Bonus
Director-Atlanta, GA $90K + Bonus
Salary: 90k plus bonus (could be up to 40k)
Benefits: Yes
Relo: Yes - Locals highly preferred
3-5 years experience running a school with Allied Health programs.
Email Resume to hshepard@dshefrin.com
Salary: 90k plus bonus (could be up to 40k)
Benefits: Yes
Relo: Yes - Locals highly preferred
3-5 years experience running a school with Allied Health programs.
Email Resume to hshepard@dshefrin.com
Campus Director - San Antonio $75K + Bonus
Campus Director
Salary: $75K + bous
Benefits: Yes
Relo: Yes
Wants someone who has run a small school and can grow it.
Salary: $75K + bous
Benefits: Yes
Relo: Yes
Wants someone who has run a small school and can grow it.
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