This comes after another multimillion-dollar settlement with a state attorney general.

Inside Higher Ed reports.

For-profit Westwood College won’t accept new students

For years, Westwood College fought off allegations of deceptive marketing and recruitment practices.

The for-profit institution, based in Colorado under the privately held Alta Colleges company, announced last month that it would stop enrolling new students. That decision came after the college agreed to a settlement with the Illinois attorney general’s office for $15 million.

It wasn’t the first settlement the college, which has a chain of 14 campus locations, has made. In 2012, Westwood settled with the attorney general of Colorado for $4.5 million, also for deceptive marketing. In 2009, the college agreed to a $7 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice related to a complaint about filing false claims for federal student aid.

But perhaps more responsible for Westwood’s downfall than any of the settlements was the fact that the college had become a prime target of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois — one of the for-profit sector’s most vehement critics. It was the stories from former students and employees, as well as the college’s advertisements, that brought the ire of Durbin.