UNITED STATES

US: For-profits step up fight against new rules
The association representing for-profit colleges is ratcheting up its campaign against the Obama administration's new regulations on student recruiting and other actions by the colleges, adding a legal push to its already vigorous lobbying and public-relations campaigns, writes Goldie Blumenstyk for The Chronicle of Higher Education.The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities has sued the US Department of Education, arguing that three new rules - one designed to prevent misrepresentation in recruiting, another to end the tying of compensation to enrolment, and a third to give states greater oversight over distance education - exceed the department's authority, were developed with inadequate due process, and, in at least one case, are unconstitutional.
Full report on The Chronicle site