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DeVos Rolls Back For-Profit College Regs, Harvard's President To Step Down

A potential weakening of campus civil rights enforcement, a big transition at Harvard and more in our weekly roundup.
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust poses for a portrait on campus in Cambridge, Mass. Faust has announced that she will step down next year. / Boston Globe / Getty Images

It's the weekend, and that means our rollup of education news around the country — starting this week with some rollbacks.

Freeze of for-profit college regs

The U.S. Department of Education is rolling back two regulations introduced during the Obama administration and designed to protect students, especially those at for-profit colleges.

In a , Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said previous rulemaking "missed an opportunity to get it right. The result is a muddled process that's unfair to students and schools, and puts

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