Study Guide: For-Profit Colleges — PEER Center For-profit colleges are private postsecondary institutions that are organized as businesses. Unlike private nonprofit institutions, profits do not need to be reinvested into the institution, but…

Check out our latest Study Guide! Here's what the research tells us about #4profit colleges -- what they are, why they expand and contract, who they enroll, what their outcomes for students are, and more. www.peer-center.org/research/stu...

Supreme Court rules against private prison firm facing forced-work suit from immigration detainees The Supreme Court has ruled against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees were forced to work and paid only $1 a day.

#4profit prisons need to go. apnews.com/article/supr...

Where Did All the Ads Go? — PEER Center Prospective college students face a daunting task in choosing which of the more than 6,000 U.S. postsecondary institutions will meet their needs and improve their lives. Some students are bombarded wi...

OUT TODAY from @srcellini.bsky.social and Leonardo Restrepo @peerresearch.bsky.social: Where Did All the Ads Go?

#highered advertising spending, especially TV, is down sharply since 2010, largely driven by spending declines in the #4profit sector. More trends: www.peer-center.org/research/whe...

Ex-Recruiter Sues For-Profit College Chain Perdoceo, Alleging Systematic Fraud - Republic Report In a powerful legal complaint filed this month in federal court in Denver, Aidan Peters, a former admissions representative for Colorado Technical University (CTU), alleges that the for-profit, online...

#4profit “colleges” continue to peddle subprime education to those least able to afford, benefit. They’re taking exploitation to its logical endpoint, bleeding those most vulnerable. www.republicreport.org/2026/ex-recr... via @davidhalperin.bsky.social

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#Trump administration will let wealthy owners of #4profit colleges off the hook for defrauding students and taxpayers fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-ce... #FleecingAmerica

Education Department recognizes Grand Canyon University as a nonprofit The move ends a six-year spat over the institution’s deep financial and operational ties to Grand Canyon Education, a for-profit services provider.

#Trump Education Department all but erases the line between #4profit and non-profit status at Grand Canyon University www.highereddive.com/news/educati... #CapitalistChristianism

Trump Wants an Accreditation Revolution. These Emails Reveal the Players Behind It. Officials, including some with connections to for-profit colleges, are coordinating on accreditation behind the scenes.

#Trump #highered accreditation power grab: a triple feature of racism, Christian nationalism, and profiteering newamerica.org/education-po... But mostly profiteering for #4profit colleges.

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Eric, one of PPSL’s Community Action Council members, attended the #4profit International Academy of Design and Technology to advance his career opportunities.

Instead, his #highered experience was riddled with fraud, gaslighting, and accruing interest payments. He's now calling for change.

In the episode, PPSL’s Eileen Connor warns of the #4profit predatory model that turns students into profit centers and threatens the standards of #highered.

Learn more about Online Program Managers, incentive-driven recruitment, and the impact on students on our site: ppsl.org/opm

PPSL's Eileen Connor warns if Wall Street gains more control over #highered, students could face higher costs, lower-quality education, and crushing #debt.

From #4profit colleges to deceptive online degrees, the pattern is clear: private equity profits, students suffer.

Thank you to @durbin.senate.gov and @repmarktakano.bsky.social for taking a stand with the PROTECT Students Act, a bill that would safeguard students from predatory #4profit colleges and ensure #highered meets the needs of all students👏👏👏

Analysis: The U of I-Phoenix talks, and where things stand It’s been 139 days since the proposed University of Idaho-University of Phoenix megadeal was last in the public eye. All of that will probably change in January, when the Legislature returns.

Interesting analysis here on the state of play for that deal for U of Idaho’s ( still?) proposed plan to buy the #4profit U of Phoenix www.idahoednews.org/top-news/ana...

New #highered rulemaking "deeply flawed...severely lacking in transparency and public participation," helps #4profit "special interests to take advantage of students and taxpayers." @PattyMurray & @BobbyScott letter to @BetsyDeVos:...

MT: In MI, we know how disastrous DeVos’ ideology is, she spent decades trying to turn our schools & students over to #4profit corps via SC

Loved @IAmJohnOliver #StudentDebt & #4Profit piece but its part of a much larger $45BILLION Wall Street Skim http://bit.ly/1nLs04c #Reclaim