Wednesday, June 6, 2012

For-profit colleges

  • The for-profit college industry includes many schools that are scamming students and taxpayers. The industry accounts for 11 percent of college students but a whopping 44 percent of student loan defaults.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • June 5 (Reuters) - An association of for-profit colleges partly won an appeal against the U.S. department of education on rules relating to deceptive advertising and distance education.
  • (Reuters)
  • The for-profit college industry has long list of failings. The schools are expensive. They educate about a tenth of all undergraduates, but account for almost half of all student loan defaults.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • The Obama administration's rule barring for-profit colleges from paying recruiters bonuses tied to the number of students they sign up was upheld by a federal appeals court. U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled today that U.S.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • There are a lot of government subsidies, and in the current fiscal atmosphere many are shrinking by necessity. What appears to be lacking is any rational way of deciding which should shrink.
  • (New York Times)
  • Our guest blogger is Lauren Jenkins, a Non-Profit Programs Consultant with ScoutComms where she works on defense and veterans issues.
  • (Think Progress)
  • Certificates are a relatively new and increasingly popular postsecondary credential, awarded typically by a community college or for-profit college for training in a particular occupation.
  • (Washington Post)

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