2006
Why For-Profit Colleges Are Like Health Clubs (5/5/2006)
Businesses Have Remedies for Sale, but a Cure Is Not Guarantee (3/10/2006)
Promises and Profits: A For-Profit College Is Under Investigation for Pumping Up Enrollment While Skimping on Education (1/13/2006)
For-Profit Education: Facing the Challenges of Slower Growth (1/6/2006)
2005
Company Managed by William Weld Is Investor in Troubled Trade Schools (9/2/2005)
An Exception to the For-Profit Rule (4/22/2005)
For-Profit Education: Online Courses Fuel Growth (1/7/2005)
2004
For the Love of God (and Money) (9/3/2004)
For-Profit Colleges Face New Scrutiny (5/14/2004)
Deeper Pockets, Different Tactics (2/13/2004)
For-Profit Colleges Rush to Fill Nursing Gap (1/16/2004)
A Season of Purchases and Lawsuits for For-Profit Colleges (1/9/2004)
2003
From Shorthand to Software: A Corporate Parent Doesn't Detach Gibbs College From Its Historical Identity (10/3/2003)
Companies' Graduate Programs Challenge Colleges of Education (9/5/2003)
For-Profit Colleges Want a Little Respect (9/5/2003)
The Chronicle Index of For-Profit Higher Education (11/14/2003)
Toward a Single Definition of College (11/14/2003)
New Jersey Gives U. of Phoenix License (10/10/2003)
The Chronicle Index Of For-Profit Higher Education (8/15/2003)
In Chile, a Fast-Growing University, Owned by Sylvan, Produces Profits and Scorn (6/27/2003)
Apollo International Builds on a Local Network to Create Colleges in Braz (6/27/2003)
Spanning the Globe: Higher-education companies take their turf battles overseas (6/27/2003)
For-Profit Colleges See Rising Minority Enrollments (5/30/2003)
For-Profit Company Buys South U. (5/16/2003)
Investments in Privately Held Distance-Education Companies Dropped in 2002 (5/2/2003)
Kaplan to Open Education School (4/25/2003)
Career Education Corp. Plans to Buy Whitman (4/18/2003)
Signer Beware (4/18/2003)
DeVry, Known for Technology and Business Programs, to Buy a Medical University (4/4/2003)
Corinthian Colleges' Stock Soared in 2002 (3/28/2003)
Kaplan Inc. Buys Accountancy-Training Company (3/28/2003)
Sylvan Will Shed Its Tutoring Business to Focus on Higher Education (3/21/2003)
For-Profit Colleges Attract a Gold Rush of Investors (3/14/2003)
Online Ads for U. of Phoenix Irk Officials at Other Colleges (2/21/2003)
Phoenix's Unusual Way of Crafting Courses (2/14/2003)
Investors Buy Chain of For-Profit Colleges (1/31/2003)
After Losing Millions, Columbia U. Will Close Online-Learning Venture (1/17/2003)
2002
Kaplan Abandons Plan to Buy Business School (11/29/2002)
U. of Phoenix Online Chief Moves to Corinthian (11/22/2002)
Phoenix Rises: The university's online program attracts students, profits, and praise (11/1/2002)
U. of Phoenix Sees Surge in Revenues and Enrollments (10/25/2002)
For-Profit Colleges Pull Out of Higher-Education Group (10/18/2002)
Study Notes Tensions Facing Public Colleges (10/18/2002)
For-Profit, for Students (6/28/2002)
U. of Phoenix Parent Is Added to Standard & Poor's 500 Index (5/24/2002)
Sylvan Learning Systems to Acquire National Technological U. (4/5/2002)
Sylvan Gains Controlling Interest in Walden (3/8/2002)
Fathom Adds Training to Distance-Education Offerings (2/22/2002)
Trading Ivy for an Office Park (2/22/2002)
Kaplan Moves Beyond Test Preparation With Purchases of For-Profit Colleges (2/15/2002)
Questions Linger Over Rise and Fall of Online Program (2/1/2002)
Colleges, Fighting U.S. Trade Proposal, Say It Favors For-Profit Distance Education (1/18/2002)
Sylvan Plans University in India (1/11/2002)
2001
Sylvan Learning Systems Acquires Paris College (12/14/2001)
Texas Fines Distance-Learning Institution as Diploma Mill (11/23/2001)
Nonprofit National U. to Buy For-Profit College of Oceaneering (11/23/2001)
For-Profit Potomac College Wins Approval to Open Pittsburgh Campus (11/16/2001)
For-Profit Colleges Praise a Shift in Attitude at the Education Department (11/9/2001)
Cornell's Distance-Education Arm Readies New Program, and Hopes for Profits (11/2/2001)
A Small, For-Profit College Unnerves Pittsburgh Academics (9/14/2001)
Aiming for a New Audience, U. of Phoenix Tries Again in New Jersey (9/21/2001)
A Wave of Consolidation Hits For-Profit Higher Education (8/10/2001)
Thomson Will Shut Down Harcourt's Online College (8/10/2001)
Study Tracks Growth of For-Profit Colleges (8/10/2001)
Argosy Acquired by For-Profit Rival (7/20/2001)
Temple U. Shuts Down For-Profit Distance-Education Company (7/20/2001)
The Duo That Leads DeVry (6/29/2001)
For Many For-Profit Colleges, the Transfer-of-Credit Blues (6/8/2001)
U. of Phoenix's Parent Company Hires Veteran Republican Operative (4/13/2001)
University of Phoenix Begins Advertising Blitz (3/30/2001)
Fine Dining and Fast Computers: a Commercial College's Recipe for Success (3/30/2001)
Majority Ownership in Strayer University Will Shift to Investment Team (3/30/2001)
Commercial Education Group Acquires 2 Law Schools (3/23/2001)
How a Computer-Training Chain Crashed in Plain Sight (2/16/2001)
Sylvan Buys Major Stake in Walden University (2/16/2001)
For-Profit Web Venture Shifts Gears, Hoping to Find a Way to Make a Profit (2/9/2001)
U. of Phoenix's Parent Company Names Former GOP Congressman to Board (2/2/2001)
For-Profit and Nonprofit Colleges Alike Criticize U.S. Rules on Compensating Recruiters (2/2/2001)
Certification Trend Offers Lessons for Higher Education (1/26/2001)
U.S. Tightens Financial Screws on Training Chain (1/26/2001)
Sylvan Will Buy Chilean University (1/12/2001)
2000
How For-Profit Institutions Chase Community-College Students (12/8/2000)
Web Company Founded by Columbia U. Opens a Beta Version of Its Site (12/1/2000)
Sylvan Buys Institutions in Switzerland and Mexico (11/27/2000)
EduTrek Is Sold to Career Education Corporation (11/10/2000)
Strayer U. Draws Many Offers to Buy, but It's Not for Sale (11/3/2000)
Sylvan Learning Systems Sells Money-Losing Division That Teaches English (10/27/2000)
Educators Lament a Corporate Takeover of International Accreditor (10/27/2000)
Unexus U., Virtual Business School, Changes Name Under Legal Threat (10/20/2000)
U. of Phoenix Sells $70-Million Worth of Stock in Its Distance-Education Efforts (10/13/2000)
Columbia's Fathom Site Attracts 4 More Prominent Partners (9/8/2000)
Harcourt's Virtual College Readies Launch (9/8/2000)
Argosy Education Group Changes Its Name and Its Mission (8/18/2000)
Company That Owns the U. of Phoenix Plans for a Major Foreign Expansion (8/11/2000)
Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Against Ultrasound Diagnostic Schools (7/14/2000)
Duke Business-School Venture Will Tailor Courses to Companies (7/14/2000)
U. of Phoenix Reports Enrollment Growth on Land and Online (7/7/2000)
Expanding Its Reach in Higher Education, Kaplan Buys Chain of Commercial Colleges (7/7/2000)
Financial Difficulties Put Entrepreneur's 'Internet University' on Hold (7/7/2000)
U. of Phoenix Agrees to Pay $6-Million to Settle U.S. Inquiry Into Student Aid (4/21/2000)
For-Profit Web Venture Seeks to Replicate the University Experience Online (4/14/2000)
Colorado Technology Effort Adds For-Profit College (4/7/2000)
Dickinson College Buys Franchise for a Sylvan Learning Center (3/31/2000)
DeVry's Chairman Gives $25-Million to U. of Chicago Business School (2/4/2000)
Turning a Profit by Turning Out Professionals (1/7/2000)
In 1999, the Bull Market Turned Into a Bear for Publicly Traded Higher-Education Companies (1/7/2000)
1999
Loan Rule May Help Shoddy Trade Schools Prey on Students, Consumer Advocates Warn (9/24/1999)
A Struggling Law School Turns Its Management Over to a Chain of Proprietary Schools (9/24/1999)
U. of Phoenix to Open Its First Pennsylvania Campus (7/9/1999)
U. of Phoenix's Parent Company Hires Education Dept. Official as Lobbyist (7/2/1999)
Moving Beyond Textbook Sales, Harcourt Plans to Open a For-Profit University (5/28/1999)
U. of Nebraska Creates Company to Offer High-School Courses on Line (4/16/1999)
Pennsylvania Surprises Colleges by Letting U. of Phoenix Open Campuses in State (3/26/1999)
Head of Lobbying Group for Trade Schools Takes Job With For-Profit Educator (3/12/1999)
\Sylvan Learning Systems Moves Into the Higher-Education Market (3/12/1999)
Critics See Conflict of Interest in Ties Between ETS and Sylvan (3/12/1999)
Sylvan Learning Systems' Links to Higher Education (3/12/1999)
Investors Snap Up Stock in Chain of For-Profit Technical Institutes (2/5/1999)
Sylvan Learning Systems to Start a Network of For-Profit Universities Overseas (1/29/1999)
1998
For-Profit Company to Sell Huron U. (11/27/1998)
U. of Phoenix Retracts Application to Operate in New Jersey (11/27/1998)
Report on U. of Phoenix Sends Stock Price Down (10/2/1998)
An Entrepreneur Sees Profits in the Future of His 'Power Campus (10/2/1998)
New Plan for Higher Education Act Dismays Many College Lobbyists (10/2/1998)
U. of Phoenix and Satellite-Technology Company to Team Up (9/4/1998)
For-Profit Trade Schools Win New Respect in Congress (9/4/1998)
N.J. Professors Seek to Stymie Expansion Plans of U. of Phoenix (7/10/1998)
Visionary or 'Operator'? Jorge Klor de Alva and His Unusual Intellectual Journey (7/3/1998)
Operator of U. of Phoenix Opens 5 New Sites in 4 States (3/6/1998)
For-Profit Higher Education Sees Booming Enrollments and Revenues (1/23/1998)
Major For-Profit Higher-Education Companies (1/23/1998)
1997
Default Rate on Student Loans Falls for Fifth Consecutive Year (11/21/1997)
Trade-School Officials Contribute to Key Lawmakers (9/19/1997)
Is the Law on Student-Loan Defaults Too Tough or Not Tough Enough? (9/19/1997)
U. of Phoenix Owner Buys Training Programs for $35-Million (9/5/1997)
For-Profit University Challenges Traditional Colleges (6/6/1997)
Former Aide in Congress Raises Eyebrows Over Trade-School Job (2/28/1997)
1996
1995
Not All Institutions Are Alike (11/14/2003)
