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Online Program Managers


  • Blogs
    Oct 28, 2025

    New Jersey State Senator Introduces the Nation’s Most Comprehensive Bill to Protect Students and Borrowers from Online Program Managers

    New Jersey State Senator Angela McKnight introduced the nation’s most comprehensive piece of legislation addressing the role of Online Program Managers in higher education.

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  • Blogs
    Oct 9, 2025

    Why We’re Sounding the Alarm on Risepoint in Illinois

    Protect Borrowers, UIC United Faculty, and University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100 released the results of an investigation into the partnerships between Illinois public institutions and a company called Risepoint. We found that five of the state’s public colleges and universities, including the University of Illinois system, appear to be renting out their reputable brand names while outsourcing vital services to Risepoint, a large and growing for-profit Online Program Manager (OPM), affecting tens…

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  • Letters & Memos
    Oct 8, 2025

    Alerting Illinois Officials to the Need to Protect Students and Borrowers from Public Institutions Outsourcing Management of Online Programs to For-Profit Company, Risepoint

    This letter discusses the urgent need to reform our bankruptcy system and shine a spotlight on how our bankruptcy system unjustly fails to protect millions of student loan borrowers.

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  • Blogs
    Jul 9, 2025

    Pell Grants for Diploma Mills? The Republican Budget Bill Could Bankroll Some of the Shadiest Short-Term Training Programs

    Since the beginning of the second Trump Administration, the EdTech industry has been conspicuously silent as its college and university clients face escalating financial and ideological attacks. One reason for this deafening silence could be the industry’s anticipation of supercharged access to federal education funds now that the Republican-controlled Congress has passed its massive budget reconciliation bill.

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  • Blogs
    Aug 7, 2024

    The Potential Fallout of 2U’s Bankruptcy: A Harsh Reality for Students

    2U, Inc.’s bankruptcy filing has broad implications for partnerships with third-party OPMs. Policymakers must ensure that educational quality is never compromised for corporate gain and that students have stronger protections and better oversight.

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  • News Clips
    Jul 27, 2024

    2U Bankruptcy Adds Fuel to OPM Uncertainties

    Longtime opponents of OPMs, including the Center for American Progress, the Project on Predatory Student Lending and the Student Borrower Protection Center, said the filing was an easy way out for a company that is long overdue for a final nail in its coffin.

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  • Blogs
    Jul 25, 2024

    Mounting Evidence from State Watchdog Report Proves That, Yet Again, Public Universities Are Selling Out Students to For-Profit Companies

    Over the last few years, SBPC has been sounding the alarm on the risks of university partnerships with Online Program Management (OPM) companies and how these for-profit entities harm students. Now, a report released by the California State Auditor has confirmed many of the worst concerns we have raised.

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  • Press Releases
    Jul 25, 2024

    “A Perverse Outcome”: Advocates Warn that 2U Bankruptcy Could Protect Executives at Students’ Expense

    2U’s bankruptcy comes as the company’s executives have taken a series of unsuccessful steps to shore up the failing firm.

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  • Blogs
    Apr 11, 2024

    A Hidden Risk of Online Higher Education

    A new consumer protection lawsuit in Maine illustrates the risks to students and challenges for the higher education sector, and serves as a call to action for regulators.

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  • Press Releases
    Dec 12, 2023

    Advocates Sound Alarm on Workforce Pell Act, Urge Congress to Reject Bail Out for Sham For-Profit and Online Training Companies That Target Vulnerable Workers

    SBPC urges lawmakers to dismiss the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act, H.R. 6585, that would deliver industry bailouts while leaving vulnerable students to pay the price.

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  • News Clips
    May 5, 2023

    Advocacy Group Urges U. of California to Do Away With Boot Camps Run by OPMs

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  • Letters & Memos
    May 5, 2023

    Letter to the University of California on Completing the Work of Protecting Students from Predatory Online Programs 

    The SBPC sends a letter applauding the University of California’s recent decision to ban fully online degrees, while urging it to fully protect students from predatory online program managers by also banning fully online non-degree programs.

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  • News Clips
    Dec 6, 2022

    Congressional Democrats Want Legal Review of OPMs

    The Student Borrower Protection Center, which has been critical of OPMs and the Education Department’s oversight of the industry, said on social media that “this letter is a key step toward ending abuses and protecting borrowers.”

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  • Blogs
    Jul 19, 2022

    OPM Contracts Reveal Risks for Students and Universities

    In a new paper, we analyzed hundreds of contracts between colleges and online program managers. What our analysis revealed about the risks OPMs might pose to students and the powers schools are handing over to private contractors is concerning.

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  • Blogs
    Jun 15, 2022

    ED Needs to Begin Planning Now for the Possibility of a Large OPM Blowing Up

    Given problems at 2U, ED needs to lay the groundwork now to ensure that student loan borrowers have a clear path to relief if an OPM folds or suddenly changes its offerings due to problems at the corporate level—and it needs to make students and the public aware of those plans immediately.

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  • Letters & Memos
    Jun 8, 2022

    Advocates Call on the CFPB to Protect Borrowers from Predatory Practices by OPMs

    In a letter to the CFPB, the SBPC and Dr. Stephanie Hall of The Century Foundation call on the CFPB to protect borrowers from predatory practices by OPMs. A recent GAO report revealed that ED is failing to supervise the market.

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  • Blogs
    Jun 8, 2022

    With ED Asleep at the Wheel, the CFPB Must Protect Students from Out-of-Control Online Program Managers

    We sent a letter to the CFPB calling on the agency to step in and protect students from predatory conduct by OPMs—something ED has proven unable or unwilling to do for more than a decade.

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  • Blogs
    Aug 19, 2021

    ED, the CFPB, and Borrowers Can All Hold School and Creditors Accountable for Predatory Lending Schemes

    Our new legal memo provides a roadmap to ensure that companies are held accountable for unlawful practices.

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  • Reports
    Jun 11, 2021

    Pushing Predatory Products: How Public Universities are Partnering with Unaccountable Contractors to Drive Students Toward Risky Private Debt and Credit

    This report is the result of an investigation revealing that public colleges and universities nationwide are driving students toward expensive, predatory student debt.

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