The South Carolina nonprofit has been drawing down its endowment while it grapples with lower enrollment and higher costs.
Colleges would "sustain immediate and irreparable injury" if the policy were allowed to continue during litigation, the judge ruled Wednesday.
Education leaders gathered in San Diego to discuss everything from cuts at the U.S. Department of Education to higher education innovation.
Colleges can improve nontraditional students' access to these credits, leaders said at the American Association of Community Colleges’ conference.