It’s a busy week for me, but I want to acknowledge, since we have focused on it here for more than two years, that the absurd deal for the University of Idaho to purchase the predatory for-profit University of Phoenix is finally dead.  That’s good news.  A wide range of Idahoans stood up against a really bad idea and stopped it. 

Now, with the Trump II administration seeming to abandon efforts to hold deceptive colleges accountable, it will be up to state officials, education advocates, and students themselves to spread the word that enrolling at the University of Phoenix is generally a bad deal. The school would best serve the public, if not its current private equity owners, by gradually shutting down.