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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The University of Arkansas System is considering a transaction in which it would transform the for-profit University of Phoenix into an independent nonprofit affiliate, spokespeople for both institutions have confirmed. “Being private equity owned, you’re always having that conversation,” Smiley said.

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Where are the future students in Myanmar?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In March, according to media coverage , 160,000 high school students took the examinations needed to enter a university—fewer than a fifth of the 910,000 who took them in 2019, the last year before COVID-19 and when Myanmar had a civilian government. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Republic Report.] About a dozen years ago, owners of some of the biggest, worst-acting for-profit colleges began concocting, with their eager, high-paid lawyers, schemes to convert their schools into non-profits.