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Is For-Profit Higher Education on Its Last Legs?
Mar 21, 2023
Possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university raises existential questions about the for-profit sector and federal regulation of higher education. A panel of experts weighs them.

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A Journal Article on Gay People, to Be Viewed With Caution
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How a Canadian Billionaire Reshaped the King’s College
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90-10 Loophole Closed
California Mulls Crackdown on Online Partnerships
May 09, 2019
Bills targeting for-profit institutions in California would prohibit tuition-sharing deals -- a sign of growing political scrutiny of the role of online program management companies.

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Is for-profit higher education dying or just a shell of itself?
March 21, 2023
Possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university raises existential questions about the for-profit sector and federal regulation of higher education. A panel of experts weighs them.
Journal places warning on flawed abuse-homosexuality study
March 20, 2023
A peer-reviewed journal placed a warning to readers last month on a flawed article from 2001. But the journal hasn’t retracted it, as a professor who discovered errors has called for.
A small college is failing. Is a rich Canadian to blame?
March 16, 2023
An entrepreneur’s for-profit education company promised to save an evangelical liberal arts college with online enrollments. Now critics are blaming it for pushing the college to the brink of closure.
U.S. issues final regs for 90-10 rule, Pell Grant for prisoners
October 28, 2022
Education Department also releases new accountability measures for when colleges and universities change ownership, along with regulations for prison education programs.
The government should stop propping up for-profits (opinion)
October 26, 2022
The U.S. government should stand with students by ending federal loans for for-profit institutions, Terry Vaughan III and Nicole Brunt write.
Two colleges flounder under opaque for-profit owners
October 18, 2022
Ambow Education purchased Bay State College in 2017 and the NewSchool of Architecture & Design in 2020. Now critics say both institutions are in shambles.
All former Corinthian students to have loans forgiven
June 2, 2022
Education Department will make the largest group discharge of federal student loans in U.S. history.
Goodwin president must retire as part of DOJ settlement
June 2, 2022
Mark Scheinberg paid students’ loans as owner of the for-profit Stone Academy, according to the Department of Justice. That action will cost him his position as president of Goodwin University.
Controversial accreditor ACICS's federal recognition likely to be revoked again
March 8, 2021
Advisory group's recommendation last week puts troubled accreditor's federal recognition in jeopardy for a second time -- a possible death knell.
2U partnership with Guild Education aims to bolster offerings for working adults
February 24, 2021
New deal gives 2U access to more companies' employees who are seeking training. Guild gets a broader slate of program offerings and 2U partner universities.

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Calif. lawmakers consider legislation aimed at for-profits and online revenue sharing
May 9, 2019

Bills targeting for-profit institutions in California would prohibit tuition-sharing deals -- a sign of growing political scrutiny of the role of online program management companies.

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