Feds offer compliments to Western Governors University in response to report urging school to repay $712M

Officials with online university dismissed the Office of Inspector General audit, saying it offers only recommendations with no enforcement authority.

(Steve Grifffin | Tribune file photo) The Western Governor's University building in Salt Lake City on Monday, Oct 19, 2009.

(Steve Grifffin | Tribune file photo) The Western Governor's University building in Salt Lake City on Monday, Oct 19, 2009.

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