A federal judge in Massachusetts this week issued a mixed ruling in a case challenging tougher regulations on for-profit colleges enacted by that state’s attorney general.
The Massachusetts attorney general’s office, which has been among the more aggressive in cracking down on for-profit colleges, largely prevailed in the case as the judge upheld seven of the nine state regulations the for-profit college association in the state had challenged.
But United States District Judge Dennis Saylor sided with the for-profit colleges in ruling that two of the regulations were unconstitutional. Those rules related to how for-profit colleges informed students about the transferability of credits and how they described or advertised the time it could take to finish their programs.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/28/federal-judge-upholds-some-massachusetts-regulations-profit-colleges-strikes-down