For-Profit Colleges

Blackboard may be king in the nonprofit sector for online learning platforms, but in the growing for-profit sector, it is still playing second fiddle.

In advance of today's release of most financial aid "integrity" regulations, Education Department signals some changes, but not in core approach or principles.

Since start of 2010, quarterly disclosures show federal lobbying expenditures on behalf of the sector have nearly doubled -- from $1.3 million to close to $2.6 million.

Several major for-profit colleges make senior hires of officials with long histories in nonprofit higher education.

U. of Phoenix plans to 'hyper-personalize' learning experience for all 400,000 of its students by building an online learning platform that thinks.

GAO report says Education Department -- particularly in Bush administration -- did too little to enforce federal law barring commissions for college recruiters.

Partisan divide in for-profit debate intensifies as Tom Harkin's committee examines student outcomes and profit margins.

Students and employees gather in Washington to speak out against "gainful employment" regulations and Congressional action.