Kevin Thompson switched on his car radio to the news that ITT Technical Institute was permanently closing its campuses nationwide. The Navy veteran was then 10 months into an 18-month bachelor’s program at the for-profit school’s campus in west Phoenix. The announcement came as a shock.
“I had a class that following Tuesday,” recalls Mr. Thompson, who had been using his benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill to cover the institute’s tuition fee of about $17,000 a year. He had hoped that higher education would help him in the transition from military service to civilian life.
