Meet the Would-Be Accreditors Tied to Predatory For-Profit Colleges

Meet the Would-Be Accreditors Tied to Predatory For-Profit Colleges

“College Graduation” by Liz Sauerbrunn is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.​ About a decade ago, two notorious for-profit college chains—ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian Colleges—collapsed after state and federal investigations revealed they had defrauded their students. Their closures, essentially overnight, left tens of thousands of students without their promised credentials. Many had debts they couldn’t pay back. A lesser-known but ultim…