This feels like it might have had something to do with the likely demise of a bunch of for-profit "educators" (ITT, AI, and the like). That was still a few year

This feels like it might have had something to do with the likely demise of a bunch of for-profit "educators" (ITT, AI, and the like). That was still a few years away, but the writing was on the wall for investors who wanted to get off the sinking ships but still continue the grift. I suppose the view on the government side was that for-profit education wasn't an inherently corrupt venture, but that the independent nature of the companies involved made the profit motive take precedent, and that tying them to institutions with their reputation on the line would help to maintain instruction quality. So much for that.