Probation for For-Profit College Chain

Inside Higher Ed: Two years ago, the Obama administration denied a request by the Utah-based Center for Excellence in Higher Education, a chain of for-profit colleges, to reclassify to nonprofit status.

The denial prompted a lawsuit from CEHE, which accused the Obama administration of agenda-driven decision making.

That lawsuit has yet to be resolved, but the for-profit chain is now facing more pressing challenges: its accreditor, the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges, last week placed its 11 campuses on systemwide probation.

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