Career College Association to Change Its Name

The Career College Association, which represents more than 1,000 mostly for-profit colleges and universities, is changing its name to the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities. The new name and acronym “APSCU” (not to be confused with the recently renamed APLU, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, or with AASCU, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities) were chosen to represent the 1,800-member association’s evolution from its trade-school roots, said Harris N. Miller, its president, in a statement issued from its annual meeting, in Las Vegas. Said Mr. Miller: “The phrase ‘private sector’ is synonymous with innovation in virtually every walk of life, and the public’s faith in private-sector solutions to solve most of society’s biggest challenges will carry over into the realm of higher education too.”