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Trump Pentagon Pick Hegseth, While Fox Host, Lobbied For Colleges That Scam US Troops
Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s choice to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Defense, was, during the first Trump administration, paid by the main trade group representing for-profit colleges, and he spoke out against legislation aimed at protecting military service members and veterans from deceptive schools that bury former students in debt.
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Troubled For-Profit Paier College Keeps Recruiting Students
Paier College, a for-profit arts, design, coding, and business school in Bridgeport, CT, continues to recruit students, even though it apparently now has no faculty, is on sharp warning status from its accreditor, has lost access to federal student aid, and has been sued for deceptive practices by the state’s attorney general. Recent students tell
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Mike Pence to Speak at For-Profit College Convention. Why Exactly?
Former Vice President Mike Pence will be the keynote speaker at this summer’s annual convention of CECU, the national trade association of for-profit colleges. CECU (full name, Career Education Colleges and Universities) announced Pence’s appearance in a March 22 press release. The CECU convention will be held in June in Pence’s home state of Indiana,
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Accreditors, Education Department Limit Public Access to Findings on Troubled Colleges
Accrediting agencies — the private gatekeepers charged by the U.S. Department of Education with issuing the approvals that make colleges eligible for student financial aid — sometimes send letters to schools describing violations of rules and establishing penalties. These letters, when posted online, can help the public, including students, understand devel0pments and misconduct at schools.
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Right-Wing Appeals Judges Block Biden Rule Aimed at Cancelling Debts for Students Scammed by Their Colleges
The New Orleans-based United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, stacked with right-wing judges and seemingly bent on nullifying a wide range of federal rules, has just taken a hard swing at the Biden administration’s borrower defense rule, a set of regulations aimed at making it possible for students who can show they
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Former Administrators of University of Antelope Valley, a For-Profit, Allege Financial Aid Fraud
Kevin Hoover uncovered problems soon after taking a job as the University of Antelope Valley’s executive financial aid director. He arrived at the California for-profit institution in December 2022, but said in an interview that he discovered misconduct had been occurring for a few years. Students routinely did not receive federal financial aid refunds to
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A For-Profit Nursing College Is Trying To Take Root In Wisconsin. Here’s Why That’s Alarming.
More than a decade ago, a for-profit college chain opened an outpost in Milwaukee: Everest College, owned by Corinthian Colleges. Soon after, Corinthian became one of the most well-known and devastating examples of a for-profit college collapse — it shut down in 2015 mired in legal and regulatory challenges, overnight leaving about 16,000 students without
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For-Profit Career College of Northern Nevada Abruptly Shuts Down
Career College of Northern Nevada (CCNN) abruptly closed on Friday, replacing its website with a closure notice and literally locking students out of the building. The company that owns the Sparks, Nevada-based for-profit school also declared bankruptcy on Friday. In the website notice, the school directs students to a U.S. Department of Education web page that
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