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First Report From Research Center Created by U. of Phoenix Attacks Critics of For-Profit Education

Chronicle of Higher Education

September 2, 2010

Two years ago, the founders of the University of Phoenix announced plans to create an independent, nonpartisan research institute to examine meaty educational issues affecting nontraditional students and for-profit higher education. But its first report, released Thursday, sings the praises of the University of Phoenix and other for-profit colleges. It argues that many of the problems of the industry highlighted in Congressional hearings and news accounts are not systemic, and lobs an attack on traditional colleges as "studies in inefficiency."

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