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Harkin Report
In late July 2012, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions released a report that was the culmination of an extensive 2-year investigation of for-profit colleges. The report became known as the Harkin report because the committee was then chaired by Thomas Harkin, a Democratic senator from Iowa. The report was perhaps as much a response to, as a cause of, the intensified scrutiny of for-profit colleges and universities, which over the previous decade had been, by far, the most rapidly expanding sector in higher education. As of the 2010–2011 academic year, for-profit institutions, many of them primarily online, enrolled about 2.4 million students, about 12% of all postsecondary students. At least six for-profit colleges operated almost exclusively online at the time ...
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