In the past two years, as the public has come to recognize that many for-profit colleges have been ripping off taxpayers and ruining students' lives, enrollments have declined, and the once-mighty industry has gone into a tailspin.
Flash drives, floppy disks and filing cabinets filled with records, some dating to 1957, are now spread between two floors of the state Office of Higher Education.
A private vocational school abruptly closed its two Oklahoma City campuses Friday, prompting some of its 80 students to transfer to Platt College of Moore and leaving others bewildered about what comes next.
If all goes according to plan, Grand Canyon University's teams will play in a Division I athletics conference and its campus will maintain a hub of academic research.
