October 5, 2007

U. of California Campus Collects a Bounty for Sending Students to a For-Profit College

By PAUL BASKEN

The U.S. Education Department calls the arrangement legal, but some are troubled by it

At a time when U.S. colleges stand accused of illegally profiting from unsavory associations with businesses involved in awarding federal student aid, at least one major public university has found an apparently legal partner: a for-profit university.

For the past five years, the University of California at Irvine has had an arrangement with Capella University, an online for-profit institution

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