Inside Higher Ed – December 7, 2012
A federal district judge on Thursday upheld a bankruptcy court’s ruling last summer that an accrediting agency had made false representations to the U.S. Education Department that helped lead to the demise of Decker College, a for-profit college that closed in 2005. The Council on Occupational Education had appealed the bankruptcy court’s July 2012 decision to a federal district court in Kentucky, arguing that the bankruptcy judge had erred in concluding that the agency’s officials had misled federal officials by reporting that Decker had delivered three of its programs online without the agency’s approval. But Judge John G. Heyburn II’s 13-page ruling said: “The bankruptcy court reasonably found COE to be dishonest when it told the department it did not approve the hybrid programs to be offered in such a manner.”
