For-profit colleges

Higher ed company seeks to shed 13 campuses, most of which lose money and/or draw scrutiny.

For-profit educators and investors discuss an enticing, but potentially dicey, new international market.

A House hearing on private sector funding for college students turns into a much broader discussion.

After newspaper questions credentials of dean, officials in Caribbean plan to investigate.

Illinois faculty push back -- and university agrees to make new online entity nonprofit, with programs run by academic departments.

In new leader, lobbying group for for-profit institutions likely to choose someone who can work well with nonprofit sector.

California has had anything but a proud history when it comes to monitoring its for-profit institutions. After all, this is a state that in the 1980s gained a suspect reputation as the “diploma mill capital of the world,” as a 2005 independent monitoring report points out.

Laureate Education, a big player abroad, becomes latest higher ed company planning to abandon Wall Street.

Harris Miller, chief of career college group, seeks to reach out to nonprofit colleges and Democrats on Capitol Hill.

U.S. proposes regulatory changes that could force agencies to set minimum standards for colleges on student learning.