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Regulation
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Regulation [Abstract]  
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On June 13, 2011, the Department of Education published its final regulations defining the term “gainful employment.” Under the regulations, a particular program offered by an institution would become ineligible for Title IV funding if it could not pass at least one of three alternative measurements in three out of four consecutive years. The first year that a program could become ineligible is 2015. On June 21, 2012, the Department released illustrative data indicating that all of the University’s programs comply with the regulations.  Although the regulations were scheduled to go into effect July 1, 2012, the U.S. District Court in Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities v. Duncan, vacated most of the regulations on June 30, 2012.  The Department has filed a motion for the Court to reconsider its decision, which motion is pending.