Obama Takes On For-Profit Colleges

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 6, 2015

Goldie Blumenstyk, senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education and author of American Higher Education in Crisis? What Everyone Needs to Know (2015 Oxford University Press), discusses how the stringent new regulations on for-profit colleges issued by the Obama administration will change the educational landscape.

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