For-Profit Colleges

Education Department says it won't meet November deadline to overhaul borrower-defense and gainful-employment rules, raising the stakes for legal challenges to the Obama-era regulations.

Education Corporation of America says it will close nearly 30 campuses across the country by 2020 -- a response to lower student enrollment and another sign of restructuring in the for-profit sector.

An accreditor places each college of the for-profit Center for Excellence in Higher Education on probation, finding misrepresentations to students and -- at one campus -- discriminatory attitudes toward students.

Purdue Global faculty members will no longer be required to sign a contentious employee agreement that allowed the university to be arbiter of who owns rights to instructional materials.

AAUP releases a nondisclosure agreement professors must sign that appears to bar them from sharing much of anything or criticizing the program after they leave.

The role of college oversight bodies is in the spotlight as more large for-profit institutions look to reclassify as nonprofits.

Large childcare provider offers free tuition for day care center workers to pursue degrees in early childhood education -- with strings attached.

Education Department's decision to drop gainful-employment rule will mean lowest-performing programs keep $5.3 billion over next decade.