News Apollo Group announced today that its fiscal fourth-quarter net income fell 60% due to higher costs and declining enrollment at the University of Phoenix. In response, the U.S. for-profit education company plans to close 115 campus, a move that will affect 13,000 students. The university, which also recently announced a tuition... more

News The U.S. Department of Education has asked a federal court to modify part of a recent decision that struck key provisions of the department’s “gainful employment“ regulations. In a motion filed yesterday, the department argued that the court should reinstate the requirement that institutions report information about their students’ loan-repayment rates and... more

News U.S. Federal Judge Rudolph Contreras has overturned a main component of the Department of Education’s controversial “gainful employment” rules, which were applied to career-training programs and were contested by for-profit colleges. The regulations, issued last year and scheduled to go into effect last Sunday, were designed to prevent for-profit colleges–which get... more

News About 5% of vocational programs that are subject to the U.S. Department of Education’s controversial gainful-employment rule failed to meet the regulation’s three key benchmarks that eventually will be required for them to receive federal student aid. Measured against the benchmarks issues last June, the graduates of 193 programs at 93 different... more

News Noting that the intent of its new “Gainful Employment” regulation was to address colleges’ “worst-performing programs,” the U.S. Department of Education today proposed an easing of the rule: Colleges creating new programs would need to obtain the department’s approval only if the programs were similar to ones that fail the... more

Resource The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at how an online learning venture revitalized Southern New Hampshire University (U.S.), a private nonprofit university that is little known nationally, not selective, and depends on tuition–and sits in a state in which the population of public high-school graduates is projected to decline for... more

News The U.S. Department of Justice and four states have filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation’s second-largest for-profit college company, charging that it was not eligible for the $11 billion in state and federal financial aid it had received from July 2003 through June 2011.... more

News The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities has sued the U.S. Education Department, charging that the agency’s recently enacted regulation aimed at ensuring that vocational programs prepare students for “gainful employment” is unconstitutional. The gainful employment rule, a final version of which was published in June, applies to colleges... more