The Education Department of the State of New York is clamping down on a fast-growing for-profit college that specializes in recruiting financially needy students who haven't graduated from high school.
American InterContinental University has been put on probation for a year by its accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The for-profit university, which is owned by the Career Education Corporation, has bounced in and out of trouble with the accreditor over the last few years.