Sentences with phrase «larger institution of public education»

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

Using the Education Department statistics, Mr. Chronister and Mr. Baldwin found that private liberal - arts colleges employed the largest proportion of full - timers on contract — 28.6 per cent, while public comprehensive institutions employed the smallest proportion — 14.8.

«This may be particularly important in states where public institutions comprise a large percentage of overall higher education enrollments.»

iTunes University «allows anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to learn from the world's largest collection of free education content — including public courses and collections from leading schools, universities, museums, and cultural institutions.»

In a joint statement, the presidents of all three of the public institutions in the state — the University of Northern Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Iowa — and the largest private one, Drake University, said they were pulling out of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education because it does not facilitate self - improvement.

The majority of the new students in higher education over the past several decades attend large public institutions, which have long since exhausted their economies of scale.

Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities, the largest for - profit industry group, said the department should not have published a public list of failing programs before institutions could exhaust the process to appeal the ratings.

Public institutions command the largest portion of distance education students, with 67.8 percent of all distance students.

Academic supports work, but are costly, and decades of state higher education budget cuts have left public institutions with large classes taught by less - qualified instructors, and little in the way of counseling, mentoring, and other core services.

Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding Chairman and Executive Director of The Commit Partnership, the nation's largest collective impact organization with over 190 institutions (including 15 school districts and eight higher ed institutions educating over 790,000 students) focused together on meaningfully improving post-secondary completion levels across the Dallas / Fort Worth area.

This initiative is unique because it brings together justice sector institutions as partners in the creation of a large - scale online public legal education resource.