At least one other state, New York, proposed a similar 80/20 rule in 2019, requiring for-profit colleges to draw at least 20% of their revenue from nonpublic sources, but the state’s for-profit lobby, ...

To most Americans, colleges like Grand Canyon University look pretty benign. But not to the Federal Trade Commission. Until recently, the FTC looked at this Phoenix-based institution and many others ...

For-profit college officials and their investors celebrated Donald Trump’s return to the White House, but the policies they favor may come with more strings attached than during his first term in ...

President Donald Trump's recent proposal to redirect federal funding from elite universities like Harvard to trade schools signals a significant shift in the US higher education landscape. While Trump ...

The for-profit higher education industry was the target of a bruising report issued last week. The industry responded and challenged several of the report's numbers. Here are all the telling numbers ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The last four years of the Biden administration have been brutal for for-profit ...

Enrollment at for-profit colleges rose significantly in fall 2024, especially among freshmen, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Four-year, for-profit colleges ...

Today’s Senate hearing about for-profit colleges provides something to think about for anyone who feels privatization is the Great Solution to what ails the U.S. education system. We’ve already heard ...

Robert Eitel has up until now refused to disclose he worked on borrower defense. A senior U.S. Department of Education official hired straight out of the for-profit college sector helped dismantle ...

Adding weight to the mounting pile of evidence against for-profit institutions, a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds a grim future for students who attend for-profit ...

One now-closed Kansas City school isn’t representative of all these institutions, which are a better fit for some young people to learn. Getty Images The last four years of the Biden administration ...