AAEA will comment on recent closure of Corinthian Colleges.  In early 2012, the Association has studied the possibility of US college closures in the future.  In this study, we have applied the new Institutional Research Intelligence (IRI) or Education Analytics paradigms, instead of the old approach.  The results have been shared to the American public (1454 pages pdf file) in AAEA’s website.  Detailed of the analyses are also available in the first published Education Analytics (IRI) book ever written in the US i.e., Institutional Research Intelligence: Go beyond Reporting.   We have to mention that what has happened to Corinthian College is not unique or random.  If one looks closely to our published research, she or he might be able to make inference what the future pictures of most US colleges will be.  Instead of reactive, AAEA is proactive.  The Association tries to anticipate what will happen to the US higher education not based on fortune-teller and baseless type of analyses.  Rather, AAEA does and complete the studies (1475 pages pdf file) based on IRI paradigm on real historical data published by US Department of Education/NCES.  These ten-year historical data were reported by each college in the US (Title IV institutions) who has received any type of federal funding such as Pell Grant or federal student loans for their students.  In our paper which was presented at 2012 North Carolina Community Colleges Annual Meetings in Raleigh and at 2012 South Central SAS Users Group Annual Meetings in Houston, TX. We have urged US colleges to use data-driven approaches rather than BAU in the decision making process which is rarely or applied or even thought before.  Needless to say that only a handful people have the background to carry out the comprehensive IRI paradigm.  These big leaps of paradigm shifts in the Institutional Research profession are not supported by enough people with the IRI skills to make it happen.  Realizing such a gap, some US colleges are moving away from the traditional Institutional Research and start to recruit folks that have enough IRI background and name the position as Business Intelligence.  Until the US has enough human resources with the IRI background, its higher education industry, tax payers, parents and college students will possibly and always suffer from sub-optimal decisions made by the college decision makers.