September 2, 2010

First Report From Research Center Created by U. of Phoenix Attacks Critics of For-Profit Education

By Goldie Blumenstyk

Two years ago, the founders of the University of Phoenix announced plans to create an independent, nonpartisan research institute to examine meaty educational issues affecting nontraditional students and for-profit higher education. Policy analysts, eager to dig into the trove of data that Phoenix and other proprietary institutions track about their students and teaching methods, cheered the news.

But for its

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