For-Profit Colleges More Than Double Spending on Federal Lobbying

For-profit colleges and their trade association spent $3.8-million lobbying the federal government in the first nine months of 2010, more than double what they spent during the same period of 2009, according to Bloomberg, in a continuation of a pattern of spending on lobbying that The Chronicle noted in May. The colleges and the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, which also hired six former members of Congress as lobbyists, have been trying to beat back regulations proposed by the Education Department that would threaten their access to federal student aid.