For-Profit Grand Canyon U. Goes Nonprofit

Grand Canyon University, a giant in for-profit education, has returned to its nonprofit roots.

With that transition comes a new business model, questions about the transformative effect such a move could have on the world of higher education, and a shift away from federal for-profit regulations.

Grand Canyon Education sold the school for $875 million to a newly formed nonprofit that will assume the Grand Canyon University name.

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