Samuel Odle, a former hospital executive who was elected to the IPS board in 2012, served on ITT’s board of directors since 2006. The for-profit higher education company closed in September in the wake of federal sanctions.
The question that dragged down ITT Educational Services—whether its expensive diplomas were leaving students awash in debt while failing to properly prepare them for gainful employment—will continue to hang over other players in the for-profit education industry.
The company will begin the process of liquidating, which will include selling off its Carmel headquarters and other real estate.
Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc. announced Tuesday morning that it will permanently “discontinue academic operations” at all ITT Technical Institutes campuses. The company blamed the closure on “inappropriate and unconstitutional” federal sanctions.
Under CEO Kevin Modany's stewardship over the past decade, ITT Educational Services Inc. has seen its stock market value drop from $2.9 billion to $8 million.
Carmel-based for-profit college operator ITT Educational Services Inc. has received a brief reprieve from its accreditor, which has delayed making a decision that could potentially devastate the embattled company.
Financial aid and class credits for as much as 8 percent of Indiana’s college students could be at risk as federal officials work to close down a national accreditor of for-profit schools.
ITT lawyers are zeroing in on cleaning up the legal quagmire—and they’re starting to have success. Without admitting liability, ITT in November reached agreements to settle securities lawsuits in Indiana and New York for a total of $29.5 million, with $25 million to be paid from the company’s insurance coverage.
Corinthian Colleges students, whose schools closed this week amid fraud allegations, are being steered by the U.S. Education Department to other for-profit chains also under investigation for similar misbehavior, including Carmel-based ITT Educational.
ITT Educational Services Inc. was unable to get a federal judge to dismiss a predatory-lending lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so now it is taking its request to an appeals court.
The U.S. Education Department has taken its toughest regulatory action ever against a for-profit college: putting Corinthian Colleges Inc., with more than 70,000 students, on the path to going out of business.
But in an interview with IBJ, ITT Educational Services CEO Kevin Modany asserted that for-profit colleges are a good deal, that they produce better results than community colleges, and that they are critical for the state and nation to close the skills gap among workers.
A default-prone portfolio of loans to ITT Educational Services students has come back to haunt Eli Lilly Federal Credit Union, a full-service but otherwise conservative institution.
A federal investigation and a shareholder lawsuit are the latest headwinds to threaten ITT Educational Services Inc., which is trying to reverse a precipitous decline in enrollment.
ITT Educational Services Inc. shares swooned Thursday morning after the private educator reported sinking revenue and a $9.5 million loss in the fourth quarter. But the stock rebounded strongly later Thursday.
Investors have dumped the already-depressed shares of ITT Educational Services Inc. after the operator of for-profit colleges shelled out $46 million for bad private student loans it had backed to help students pay the portion of its pricey tuition that federal loans won’t cover. With fewer ITT graduates able to find jobs, the default rates on these loans has spiked.
For-profit school operator ITT Educational Services Inc. told investors late last month that it had worked out a tentative deal with an outside party that would provide $100 million in loans to its students.
The Carmel-based operator of for-profit colleges earned $76 million in the quarter compared with $97.5 million in the same quarter of 2010. Revenue fell 10 percent.
For-profit colleges like Carmel-based ITT Educational Services would be forced to rely less on federal money under a bill aimed at curbing the marketing of degrees to soldiers and veterans.
Shares of for-profit education companies—including Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc.—ended higher on Tuesday as a William Blair analyst said a long-awaited federal "gainful employment" rule likely won't hurt vocational school chains as much as investors think.
