Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the University of Virginia,  to accept a “compact” loaded with right-wing priorities. Rowan, CEO of giant Apollo Global Management, responded with a New York Times op-ed today
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Two former executives at the for-profit Los Angeles Film School have sued the school, its connected operation Full Sail University, and the schools’ main owner, Bill Heavener, alleging that the school has defrauded federal taxpayers for years via a scheme that certified fake job placements for graduates.  The complaint, filed last year in U.S. district
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A federal district judge in Fort Worth, TX, today rejected a challenge from the for-profit cosmetology school industry to the Department of Education’s latest version of the gainful employment rule.  This iteration of the rule, issued in 2023 under the Biden administration, will cut off federal student grants and loans to for-profit and career education
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During the first Trump administration, I marked my extreme distain for the whole operation by posting a regular feature on this website, Trump Terrible 10, ranking and critiquing the ten most disgraceful people in the administration that week. Consistent with my views about the best way to operate during Trump 2, I’m not doing that
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A couple of people I know criticized me for calling the Trump administration fascist. They said I didn’t know what fascism is or that using that word is dangerous.  I have looked carefully at what fascism means and whether it is appropriate to call the Trump administration fascist. There is much evidence to support that
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We don’t yet know who committed the vicious murder of Charlie Kirk, or what was in their mind, but Trump and MAGA already have blamed every progressive. Meanwhile we DO know who sent the mob to the Capitol that viciously attacked police officers, and who pardoned and released every last one of those criminals. We
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Having failed to complete deals to sell the troubled giant for-profit University of Phoenix to major state universities in Arkansas and Idaho — after people in those states got cold feet — the school’s owner, private equity behemoth Apollo Global Management, just before the holiday weekend announced an initial public offering for the school.  Phoenix’s
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As we predicted last month, the Federal Trade Commission today announced it had dropped the case it had been pursuing against for-profit college operation Grand Canyon Education. Obviously proud of their action, the three Republican appointees — masquerading as the full FTC after Donald Trump illegally fired the two Democratic appointees — buried the announcement
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