As part of that push, UC registered as an official energy service provider, which will let it supply electricity to some of its campuses and hospitals as early as next year.
This past week, a major for-profit college chain called Education Corp. of America (ECA) abruptly announced that it would be closing dozens of its campuses by 2020.
In fact, the Education Department bailed out the financially troubled operator of schools under the Heald, Everest and Wyotech brands; helped it find buyers for some of its campuses; and publicly worried about the cost of allowing Corinthian to fail.
The Santa Ana-based company announced in July that it would sell the vast majority of its campuses, after the Department of Education restricted access to federal student loans and grants.
Less than six months after the British government announced tighter restrictions on student visas, at least one university has said it is being forced to close one of its campuses as a result of the new regulations.
Mr Austen, of Great Barr, West Midlands, told the Daily Telegraph: "In the CD-Rom which they sent me with the prospectus, a student was quoted as saying 'I was offered Oxford; I was offered Cambridge; it had to be Walsall - it's great.' (Walsall is one of its campuses).
Brandman University, a nonprofit institution that serves about 11,000 students on 26 campuses in California and Washington, announced Tuesday that it would introduce a new program on some of its campuses aimed specifically at Hispanic students who have not mastered English.
Some of its campuses continue to perform well in national rankings, it has significant non-state revenue sources, and it has a strong research record.
Some of its campuses are considered small cities, with as many as 200,000 workers.
