The New York Education Department’s crackdown on for-profit colleges that fail to meet state standards has nabbed another institution. According to today’s New York Times, the department has ordered Taylor Business Institute, a two-year college in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, to close by January.

The state didn’t shutter the college immediately in order to allow current students to complete this term. The department ordered the college closed after a review committee found that “the institute operates more as a high school equivalency preparation enterprise than as a college.”

The department’s action came 10 months after the state imposed enrollment limits on another for-profit college, the Interboro Institute, that also specializes in serving students who lack a high-school diploma (The Chronicle, December 7, 2005).

This fall the New York Board of Regents is expected to approve a series of regulations designed to give state officials greater authority to regulate for-profit institutions (The Chronicle, May 23).