ASA College, a for-profit school with campuses in New York City and Miami, has been in the news lately because its owner, Alex Shchegol, who was forced out as the college president by his board three years ago amid allegations of egregious sexual misconduct, ousted most of the school’s board members last fall and regained
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On October 2, 2015, Kevin Modany, the CEO of ITT Educational Services, Inc., then one of the biggest for-profit college operations in the United States, sent an email to company lawyers about Rohit Chopra, an assistant director at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “This guy,” Modany wrote, “should be sent to Guantanamo Bay for
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As chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Bobby Scott’s responsibilities include protecting against waste, fraud, and abuse with the hundreds of billions in federal aid dollars that go to U.S. colleges and universities. Rep. Scott (D-VA) has diligently met that obligation, holding hearings and asking questions of controversial college operators and the
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USA Today over the weekend reported that it had obtained an internal U.S. Department of Education email indicating that the Department, in December, requested information from for-profit college company Perdoceo, which runs American Intercontinental University (AIU) and Colorado Technical University (CTU). The Department also asked Perdoceo (which was known until 2020 as Career Education Corp.)
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Fifteen organizations (and me) have sent a letter calling on the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen its reviews of accreditors, with a focus on accreditor oversight of schools with poor student outcomes and predatory practices. Accreditors that the Department approves serve as gatekeepers for federal student aid: Students who enroll at schools approved by
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At a trial in a San Diego courtroom late last year, lawyers from the California attorney general’s office presented powerful evidence regarding years of predatory abuses against students by for-profit Ashford University. The case now awaits a verdict by the presiding state judge. Meanwhile, the school has come under increasing scrutiny by its accreditor, WASC,
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This morning, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, called on the U.S. Department of Education to reconsider the non-profit status of Florida’s Keiser University and its parent institution, Everglades College, after a review by the Committee found that school president Arthur Keiser and other insiders have received millions of
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For-profit college giant the University of Phoenix today named George A. Burnett its new president. Burnett, slated to start work next week, was once the CEO of Denver-based Alta Colleges, operator of Westwood College, which closed in 2015 in the wake of a devastating legal complaint, alleging systematic deceptions of students, filed by the state
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