N.Y. Reins In For-Profit Colleges

by E Wayne Ross on January 28, 2006

Inside Higher Ed: N.Y. Reins In For-Profit Colleges

New York State has put a moratorium on the establishment of new programs by for-profit colleges while officials examine perceived abuses and the state’s existing policies to combat them. The step is the latest in a string of actions suggesting that states and other regulators are ratcheting up their scrutiny of, and turning up the heat on, commercial colleges.