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Reading "Abrupt Closing of Corinthian Campuses Leaves 16,000 Students Scrambling" makes me think that this closed door (apparently for good reasons) opens the door for these students at traditional schools. As Brian Murphy, president of De Anza College, comments in the article, area community colleges are trying to obtain contact information for the students so they can reach out to them directly and let them know they can apply. "There are 11 community colleges in the Bay Area that would welcome their participation," he said.

State and federal officials have offered help to students enrolled at the campuses that closed. Among other things, they are wondering about transferring to other colleges and what will happen to their student loans. Students at 28 campuses owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc. encountered locked doors and posters bearing messages from angry students on Monday, signs of the abrupt end of the for-profit higher-education company that had been under intense scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Education.

After Corinthian’s announcement on Sunday night that four of its subsidiaries — Everest College, Everest Institute, Heald College, and WyoTech — would close because the parent company had failed to find a buyer for them, many questions remained about how the decision to shut down had been made and what would come next for the 16,000 students enrolled in the colleges, most of them in California and other western states.

More on the closing http://www.cci.edu/update.php