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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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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Three-fourths of all EdTech VC financing in 2022 went to just five start-ups. It’s not like Coke and Pepsi… The Coursera platform, writ large , connects universities, learners, government agencies, megacorporations, and local employers. On the bigger picture, I read countless articles about AI and the future of work.

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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.