Past Coverage

• Sylvan Gains Controlling Interest in Walden - March 8, 2002
• Sylvan Learning Systems to Acquire National Technological U. - April 5, 2002
• Sylvan Will Shed Its Tutoring Business to Focus on Higher Education - March 21, 2003
• Sylvan Buys Major Stake in Walden University - February 16, 2001
• Recent Developments in For-Profit Higher Education - May 14, 2004

Recent News

• How a Scholarship Corporation Tried to Muzzle a Blogger

  The National Merit Scholarship Corporation used legal pressure to get a college counselor to remove state cutoff scores for its scholarships from her blog.

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  Tufts U.'s President Will Step Down to Return to Teaching

  After nine years in office, Lawrence S. Bacow says he is not interested in another presidency: "It's one and done for me."

• Coalition Seeks Better Conditions for Those Off the Tenure Track

  The group calls on colleges to give contingent faculty members better pay and support, but not all of its members have signed the statement.

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