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Obama: For-Profit College Industry “Making Out Like a Bandit” 24 Aug 2013 | 10:13 pm
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...
Bezos’s Purchase of the Post Leaves Graham with Kaplan For-Profit College 6 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
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 fam...
Leon Panetta Quits Corinthian Colleges Board; Marc Morial Should, Too 24 Jul 2013 | 11:46 pm
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 ...
INFOGRAPHIC: The Koch Bros, Getting Richer While the World Burns 18 Jul 2013 | 11:42 pm
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Buzzfeed Infographic Is Devious Tool of For-Profit College Marketer 27 Jun 2013 | 09:40 pm
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 peop...
Jury Awards $13 Million To Single Mom Deceived By For-Profit College Tied to Mitt Romney 20 Jun 2013 | 12:49 am
On Friday a Missouri jury awarded $13 million in punitive damages to a single mother who had been deceived by for-profit Vatterott College. Vatterott, which has a long record of abusing students and l...
For-Profit College Trade Group: Protectors of Bad Behavior 19 Jun 2013 | 01:32 am
The main trade association of for-profit colleges, APSCU, seems to exist for the purpose of protecting the worst, most abusive, most predatory conduct by its member companies. Why else would the assoc...
For-Profit College Analyst Says “Subprime” Students Are To Blame 7 Jun 2013 | 05:32 am
A Wells Fargo stock analyst, who boosts for-profit colleges while frequently overlooking their abuses, lays the blame for one particularly predatory college’s high failure rate at the feet of low-inco...
Romney Is Selling His Transition Report Even Though It Was Funded By Taxpayers 5 Jun 2013 | 01:44 am
Under a federal law enacted in 2010, taxpayers now fund efforts by presidential nominees to begin their White House transition efforts even before the election, by providing federal services and facil...
What I Just Told the Obama Administration About For-Profit Colleges 30 May 2013 | 09:59 pm
The U.S. Department of Education is now engaged in a series of public hearings on higher education issues, including reforms to curb the abuses of predatory for-profit colleges. It is also accepting w...
