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Evisions and Cayuse Join Forces to Provide Enhanced Academic Management and Proposal Development Solutions

Two Leaders in Higher Education Software Solutions Consolidate.  Evisions, Inc., announced on January 13th that it has acquired Beaverton, OR-based Cayuse, Inc., to consolidate two leaders in higher education software solutions.
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Oracle Settles U.S. Agency Overbilling Case for $199.5 Million

Oracle Corp., the world’s second- biggest software maker, agreed to pay more than $199.5 million to settle allegations it overbilled the U.S. government for nine years.

The accord resolves a lawsuit claiming Oracle induced the General Services Administration to buy $1.08 billion in software from 1998 to 2006 by falsely promising the same discounts offered to Read More>
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Blackboard: A Tale Of 2 Companies - Company Secrets

When Blackboard’s business is carefully pulled apart, a very different picture emerges from what management has shown the world. In reality, it is two companies: The company that Providence thinks it is buying has grown rapidly and moved aggressively to expand its product offerings. Widely held, it is a market leading software company whose brand is well-known.
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Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action Suit against the Princeton Review, Inc.

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP (“Robbins Geller”) today announced that a class action has been commenced on behalf of an institutional investor in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of The Princeton Review, Inc. (“Princeton Review” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:REVU) in or traceable to the Company’s offering of common stock on or about April 15, 2010 (the “Offering”), as well as purchasers of the Company’s common stock between March 12, 2009 and March 11, 2011, inclusive (the “Class Period”).
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Would the U.S. Department of Education send a S.W.A.T team to someone's home for defaulting on a Student Loan?

The resident Kenneth Wright said that he went to the Mayor and the Stockton Police Department and was then informed that they had not issued the search warrant, that they had nothing to do with it... that the U.S. Department of Education issued the search.
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Coalition Responds to Fresh Evidence that GAO Deliberately Issued Biased Report on Career Colleges

“Fresh and damning evidence confirms what we have said all along: the GAO not only mishandled its August 2010 report critical of career colleges but the agency knowingly and deliberately bowed to political pressure from Senator Harkin and Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee staff members, resulting in an inaccurate and biased report. Today’s news also shows they allowed a deeply flawed process to proceed without...
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May 11, 2011 - FRC to Host Panel, Webcast on 'Federal Takeover of Higher Education'

The panel will feature Dr. Richard J. Bishirjian, president of Yorktown University; Dr. Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars; and Dr. Richard Vedder, founder of the Center for Educational Affordability and Productivity. FRC Senior Fellow Chris Gacek, J.D., Ph.D., will moderate the panel.