Probation for For-Profit College Chain

September 11, 2018
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Two years ago, the Obama administration denied a request by the Utah-based Center for Excellence in Higher Education, a chain of for-profit colleges, to reclassify to nonprofit status.


The denial prompted a lawsuit from CEHE, which accused the Obama administration of agenda-driven decision making.


That lawsuit has yet to be resolved, but the for-profit chain is now facing more pressing challenges: its accreditor, the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges, last week placed its 11 campuses on systemwide probation.

Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/09/11/accreditor-finds-misleading-consumer-statements-discriminatory-attitudes-profit