Biden crackdown targets for-profit colleges

As administration embarks on writing tough new federal rules, prominent proprietary chain loses transfer agreement in California

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January 26, 2022

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January 31, 2022

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by SeanieFinneran on January 26, 2022 - 8:27am

Hilarious that the first ad that pops up while I’m reading this is from The (for-profit) University of Law.

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