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)