We Don’t Need No (For-Profit) Education

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



Posted by karlfrisch at 9:20 am
September 9, 20102

We Don’t Need No (For-Profit) Education
Posted by karlfrisch on @ 9:20 am


With summer nearly over, the nation’s college campuses are bustling once again.

For many students however, the rites of passage associated with higher education won’t be rushing a sorority, winning the big game or planning a spring break trip to Florida.

No, looking back, a growing number of students will regale their children with horror stories about being ripped off by a for-profit college.

Of late, the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee has been investigating the booming multi-billion dollar for-profit college industry — think Kaplan University or DeVry for example. What it has found thus far is not pretty.

According to a report released by the committee earlier this summer, some major players in the field are spending about as much on marketing and recruitment as they are on educating students. Those numbers are worse at exclusively online for-profit institutions.

So, just what type of marketing and recruitment is all of that money buying?

An undercover investigation by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) this summer found that of fifteen for-profit colleges tested, four encouraged undercover applicants to “falsify their financial aid forms to qualify for federal aid” while all fifteen “made deceptive or otherwise questionable statements.” ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/09/we-dont-need-no-for-profit-education/

[leftstreet]

1. Holy crap! There are some shocking $tati$tic$ in there

Big (taxpayer) monies!

and LOL at "Phoenix University...the WalMart of for profit colleges"

K&R