From a story on For-Profit schools:
The University of Phoenix, the country’s largest and best-known for-profit, has been investigated in several different states. It settled with the Justice Department over its recruiting practices for $67 million in 2009, after a government review, according to the Arizona Republic, “paint(ed) a picture of a school so hungry to enroll new students that it has threatened and intimidated its recruitment staff in meetings and e-mail, pressured them to enroll unqualified students and covered up its practices to deceive regulators.”