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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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For-Profit College Operation Perdoceo Fails to Halt Fraud Lawsuit
Seeking dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that it abused students and defrauded taxpayers, the for-profit college company Perdoceo Education Corp. argued that a whistleblower’s allegations were stale because the same assertions were already made public — including in two articles published here on Republic Report. Unfortunately for Perdoceo, the federal judge hearing the case concluded
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Predatory Colleges, Converted To Non-Profit, Are Failing
About a dozen years ago, owners of some of the biggest, worst-acting for-profit colleges began concocting, with their eager, high-paid lawyers, schemes to convert their schools into non-profits. The apparent aims were to evade the heightened government regulations applied uniquely to for-profit schools in order to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse — and to
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Shuttered For-Profit ASA College Aims for Comeback
New York City’s ASA College, a for-profit school that lost its accreditation and closed its doors to students in February — following scandals involving deceptive subway ads and sexual misconduct allegations against its owner — seems to be trying for a comeback. ASA College’s board chair, Frank Seddio, sent a letter dated November 1 to
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FTC, New Jersey Charge For-Profit College With Deceptions, Order Student Debts Cancelled
The Federal Trade Commission and the state of New Jersey have reached parallel settlements with for-profit Sollers College, under which the school has been ordered to cancel $3.4 million in student debt for about 400 students. Sollers, which has a single campus in New Jersey plus courses online, also must pay a $1.2 million civil
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