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International Education Corporation (IEC), currently fighting a decision by the U.S. Department of Education to cut off student aid to its school Florida Career College (FCC), is now facing additional scrutiny not only from the Department, but also from California’s attorney general and from accreditor ACCSC, which oversees ten campuses of two other IEC-owned schools,
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The U.S. Department of Education announced today that it is cancelling $72 million in student loan obligations for more than 2,300 former students who attended for-profit Ashford University between 2009 and 2020. These ex-students had filed claims under federal rules, called borrower defense, offering debt relief for students who can show that their school ripped
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Atlantis University, a Miami-based for-profit school, appears to be in violation of a rule of the private accrediting agency that oversees its operations, a standard governing the use of “branch campuses” tied to a school’s central campus. Remarkably, in 2017 Atlantis won an award from that accreditor, Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC),
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A website with the apparent purpose of lauding controversial, ultra-wealthy Florida for-profit college owner Arthur Keiser has added 16 posts over the past two months, with titles like “Exploring Arthur Keiser’s Impact on the Academic Excellence of Keiser University,” “Why Keiser University Stands Out: A Closer Look at Arthur Keiser’s Educational Legacy,” and “The Philosophy
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Arthur Keiser is the ultra-wealthy Florida for-profit college owner who went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court trying, but failing, to block a landmark court settlement aimed at cancelling the student loan debt of hundreds of thousands of students who say they were deceived by their schools. His complaint was that his school,
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At a public hearing Thursday in Orlando, Florida, executives of troubled for-profit Florida Career College (FCC) suggested that U.S. Department of Education officials might be amenable to finding an alternative to their recent decision to cut off federal student grants and loans to the school. The Department announced on April 11 that it was terminating
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Last August, the U.S. Department of Education terminated the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) as a recognized accrediting agency, in the wake of powerful evidence that ACICS had allowed a number of schools under its watch to engage in deceptive and predatory practices without facing serious consequences. The Department’s action reprised a
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The demised career college operation Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which ran Independence University and other schools, lost on nearly every issue today in a decision issued by the Colorado Supreme Court. The state high court unanimously rebuffed CEHE’s demand for a new trial of a case brought by the Colorado attorney general. In
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