Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: The number of students taking Myanmar’s matriculation exams has declined sharply, with this year’s figures showing a drop of more than 80 percent from 2019—raising concerns about the continued disruption of higher education in the country.

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University Business

MAY 7, 2024

Capella University, a private for-profit university in Minnesota, is just one of the institutions across the nation seeing gains in college completions among its underserved adult learner population, says its president, Constance St. Germain’s students is 37 years old.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: The University of Arkansas System is considering a transaction in which it would transform the for-profit University of Phoenix into an independent nonprofit affiliate, spokespeople for both institutions have confirmed. “Being private equity owned, you’re always having that conversation,” Smiley said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Students who took out loans to attend the for-profit University of Phoenix under the belief that the school offered them unique job opportunities at top organizations will have their debt forgiven, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. This is not the first time that the campaign has gotten Phoenix into trouble.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The second strategy is an acquisition, which is how the National University System is expanding its doctoral offerings. NU acquired Northcentral University (pending appropriate WSCUC and DOE approvals), an online for-profit university that offers mostly graduate education programs at the master and doctoral levels.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The second strategy is acquisition, which is how the National University System is expanding its doctoral offerings. NU acquired Northcentral University (pending appropriate WSCUC and DOE approvals), an online for-profit university that offers mostly graduate education programs at the master’s and doctoral levels.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 2, 2024

Grand Canyon in 2018 had restructured itself into two entities: a non-profit college, GCU, and a for-profit company, Grand Canyon Education (GCE), that gets paid to provide a range of services to the school.

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