Robert Shireman

Robert Shireman is a former deputy under-secretary of the United States Department of Education. As of 2019, Shireman was working as a director of "higher education excellence" at The Century Foundation.[1]

Department of Education

Shireman served as deputy under-secretary of the Department of Education for about 18 months from 2009 to 2011. He created an income-based loan-repayment plan, helped simplify federal financial aid forms for higher education, and led the department's transition to fund all student loans directly instead of guaranteeing loans offered by private-sector institutions.

The gainful employment rule championed by Shireman, was overturned by judicial review in 2012 because of its arbitrary nature.[2]

TICAS

Before his time at the Department of Education, Shireman served as the president of The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). Shireman founded this organization with Lauren Asher in 2005. Shireman was serving as president of TICAS when he left to join the Obama administration in 2009. Shireman was immediately hired as an outside consultant by the Department of Education after he left in 2011. As of 2014, Shireman headed another education related-group, California Competes.[1]

Ethics investigation

In 2011, federal investigators began an investigation into whether Shireman violated ethics laws by allegedly sharing sensitive information about the Obama administration's efforts to regulate for-profit colleges with his former group, TICAS.[3] In March 2014, United States District Judge Amy B. Jackson ordered TICAS to release emails related to Shireman and California Competes to the IG investigation.[1]

References
  1. Stratford, Michael. "Judge Compels TICAS Emails". Inside Higher Ed. Inside Higher Ed, Inc. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. Fain, Paul (20 March 2014). "Down But Not Out". Inside Higher Ed. Inside Higher Ed Inc. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  3. Mullins, Brody (16 May 2013). "Former Education Official Faces Federal Investigation". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2 December 2020.


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