News Analysis: Codes of Conduct (All 3 of Them) for For-Profit Colleges Aim to Quell Skeptics

How many industry codes of conduct does it take to persuade the public that for-profit colleges are serious about reform?

For those keeping score—and ignoring the obvious wiseacre reply, "One, but they really have to want to change"—the answer, as of Thursday at least, is three.

The sector's main trade association has one that it updated a year ago. A group of regionally accredited for-profit colleges introduced its own in July, written in lofty language and in

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