For profit colleges

• A congressmans investigation into executive pay at for-profit colleges has found that it is based predominantly on the profitability of their companies rather than the success of their students. Rep. Elijah E.
(The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• These are challenging times for Downers Grove-based DeVry Inc.
(Chicago Sun-Times)
• Some call it the future of education, others a capitalistic behemoth running amok with little concern for its customers. Either way, for-profit colleges have transformed the higher education landscape.
(Daily Aztec)
• July 23 (Reuters) - Bridgepoint Education shares fell to a life-time low on fears that the for-profit education provider may lose federal funding as accreditation bodies become stricter in quality checks.
(CNBC)
• A federal judge recently overturned federal regulations that would have denied federally backed loans to students attending colleges that graduated students with substantial debt and no job.
(YAHOO!)
• Among them: tuition installment plans, zero-interest loans from colleges, home-equity loans publisher of FinAid.org, a for-profit website that tracks student loans.
(Wall Street Journal)
• Phoenix, a giant among for-profit colleges, says its responding to the needs of the veteran workforce, offering practical training and skills.
(Los Angeles Times)
• In just seven years, Ashford University has grown to be one of the nations largest for-profit colleges, morphing from a 300-student Catholic school in Iowa into a massive online institution serving more than 90,000.
(Huffington Post)