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For at least the past 10 years, traditional colleges have been closely watching the rise and fall of the for-profit sector. Some experts point to minimal regulation, heavy recruitment and a lack of student knowledge about college choices to explain...

Reparations must have three components. Georgetown’s plan has only one of them. Georgetown University did something remarkable this week. The university issued a set of plans to “reconcile” (quoting Georgetown President John J. DeGioia) its role in...

Tressie McMillan Cottom studies for-profit colleges as a sociologist at Virginia Commonwealth University. She's analyzed large data sets, scrutinized financial filings, interviewed students and staff. But she has also helped enroll students at two different...

Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Blogger. Writer at Slate, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Dissent, and more. Faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. Prolific tweeter. Black. Feminist...

The majority of for-profit colleges are small, but the largest and most notable bear familiar names: the University of Phoenix and ITT Technical Institute, to name two. Historically, for-profit colleges have been local, family-owned operations controlled...