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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Confessions of a Community College Dean

That 2011 guidance enabled the emergence over the last decade of an entire industry of companies known as online program management firms, or OPMs. “We must carefully weigh students’ interests against the interests of taxpayers and institutions,” Mitchell said.

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Predatory Colleges, Converted To Non-Profit, Are Failing (David Halperin, Republic Report)

Higher Education Inquirer

Finally, there is ultra-wealthy Arthur Keiser and his Keiser University, whose 2011 conversion from for-profit to non-profit was comparable to Carl Barney and CEHE: a sale of the for-profit school owned by Keiser, at a remarkably high valuation, to a non-profit controlled by Keiser.