Goodwin University President Mark Scheinberg said he’s got a plan to turnaround the financially-ailing University of Bridgeport. HBJ FILE PHOTO Mark Scheinberg is arguably the state’s top education ...

May 27—EAST HARTFORD — Goodwin University President Mark Scheinberg has agreed to retire from Goodwin and University of Bridgeport within five years, as part of a settlement with the federal ...

Mark Scheinberg, the president of Goodwin College, founded the institution when he was just 24 in 1981. He bought a small trade school called the Data Institute with the goal of offering pathways to ...

Successful for-profit colleges can be small gold mines for their owners, especially if they are willing to sell out to a bigger higher-education company. The owner of Goodwin College took a different ...

The school relocated across the river into East Hartford and became a college. In 2002, Scheinberg converted the for-profit college to non-profit, largely he said, to keep “his baby” from being ...

The United States government had been seeking to claim funds Mark Scheinberg had received for his role with the business of PokerStars. According to court documents filed on Tuesday, he has agreed to ...

IN AUGUST a publicly traded Montreal company called Amaya bought Rational Group, the owner of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, for $4.9 billion in cash. (See story.) The deal ended a remarkable saga ...