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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At its peak in 2010, the University of Phoenix enrolled 470,000 students, including a mix of in-person and online students who were mostly working learners. Over the course of the next decade, economic trends and aggressive regulatory scrutiny from the Obama administration battered the university’s reputation and drove enrollment down.

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Reflections on 2018 and Predictions for 2019: with Drumm McNaughton | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 012

The Change Leader, Inc.

Many can be directly attributed to the decertification of ACICS by the Obama administration. Some of those mergers were huge ( Purdue acquiring Kaplan , Strayer acquiring Capella, National University System acquiring Northcentral ). Not surprisingly, ACICS was decertified by the Obama administration in 2016. This is huge.