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Who Wrote the For-Profit College Group Handbook Urging Members Not To Lie to Students?
The lobbying group of for-profit colleges, APSCU, today released a report, “Best Practices in Recruitment and Admissions.” State and federal authorities, and private lawyers, have been investigating for-profit colleges, and winning settlements, arbitrations, and jury verdicts in cases where recruiters used coercive tactics and made false promises to prospective students about college costs, job placement rates,
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Who Owns The Awful Corinthian Colleges? Wells Fargo, Marc Morial, Pension Funds
Last Thursday, California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris, sued Corinthian Colleges, one of the country’s biggest — and worst — for-profit college companies, for “false and predatory advertising, intentional misrepresentations to students, securities fraud and unlawful use of military seals in advertisements.” Harris’s lawsuit claims that Corinthian, which operates the schools Heald, Everest, and Wyotech, deceived prospective students, investors, and
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Discredited For-Profit College Operator Still Part of APSCU Trade Group
The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, or APSCU, is the Washington, DC-based lobbying group for America’s for-profit colleges. APSCU has opposed a wide range of reasonable efforts by the Obama Administration and Members of Congress to hold bad actors in its industry accountable for waste, fraud, and abuse with the roughly $32 billion
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Gallery: Fun Fueled By For-Profit College Fraud
The images above depict a life of glitzy charity events and socializing with the rich and famous. It’s the life of Arthur E. Benjamin of Delray Beach, FL, and Dallas, TX. According to his website, Arthur Benjamin is an “Internationally Recognized Educator, Corporate Leader, Philanthropist and Animal Rights Activist.” He “has been dedicating himself to
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Obama: For-Profit College Industry “Making Out Like a Bandit”
Yesterday President Obama delivered a forceful message to the predatory for-profit college industry. In response to a question at an event Friday at Binghamton University in New York state, Obama said these businesses were “making out like a bandit” preying on veterans and other students, as well as taxpayers. He warned that if these for-profit
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Bezos’s Purchase of the Post Leaves Graham with Kaplan For-Profit College
Among the many questions raised by Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post newspaper is: What will become of the rest of the old Washington Post Company, publicly traded and run by the Graham family? The fact is that the Post Company was already dominated, in several respects, by its lucrative Kaplan education subsidiary, which
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Leon Panetta Quits Corinthian Colleges Board; Marc Morial Should, Too
On April 30, I published an article criticizing former Obama Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and National Urban League President Marc Morial for joining the board of Corinthian Colleges, one of the most irresponsible and predatory for-profit college businesses. (The Los Angeles Times ran a piece addressing this matter on May 31.) Corinthian, which operates under the
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Buzzfeed Infographic Is Devious Tool of For-Profit College Marketer
The Internet loves infographics. So websites seeking clicks are always looking to run infographics, and marketers are always seeking to supply websites with infographics — infographics that steer people to their products. Yesterday, super-popular website Buzzfeed allowed one of its contributors to post an infographic sharply criticizing for-profit colleges — as a sector run by
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