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Inside Higher Ed: Study Finds VA Fails to Protect Veterans From Deceptive Recruiting
A memo from Yale Law School's Veterans Legal Services Clinic finds that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had the authority to protect veterans from institutions that use deceptive recruiting practices by denying GI Bill funds to [...]
Consumerist: Whistleblower Lawsuit Claims University of Phoenix Defrauded the Government
You can now add the University of Phoenix and its parent company, Apollo Education Group, to the list of for-profit educators who find themselves on the defendant end of a whistleblower lawsuit. A former Phoenix [...]
Consumerist: AGs Seek Better Protections For Servicemembers Deceived By For-Profit Colleges
Federal regulators must do more to protect servicemembers from unscrupulous colleges seeking to get their hands on their education benefits. That’s the message eight states want to get across to the secretary of Veteran Affairs [...]
HuffPost Education: Students Testify: For-Profit Colleges Stole Our Futures
After six years of engagement on the issue of America’s predatory for-profit colleges, I feel I’ve seen it all — every kind of account of students deceived and abused by cynical college operators who have [...]
MarketWatch: Whistleblower Suit Against For-Profit College Charges Schemes Against Students
A Florida campus of for-profit college chain ITT Tech enrolled a blind student in a computer networking program that required students to identify cords by color and read codes, according to an accusation by a [...]
WAVY-TV: State Agency Says GI Bill Can’t Be Used at Local University
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (WAVY) -- The Virginia Department of Veterans Services (DVS) says students can't use their GI Bill benefits at the Medical Careers Institute at ECPI University in Virginia Beach anymore. DVS said the withdrawal [...]
New York Times: For-Profit College Expected to Pay Millions
The nation’s second-largest for-profit college operator, Education Management Corporation, is expected to agree to pay nearly $90 million to settle a case accusing it of compensating employees based on how many students they enrolled, encouraging [...]
The Center for Investigative Reporting: Bill Would Limit For-Profit Colleges’ Access to Federal Funds
The White House today put its weight behind legislation seeking to rein in for-profit schools siphoning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars annually by preying on veterans and military personnel eligible for the GI Bill [...]
Inside Higher Ed: For-Profit Settles with Illinois Attorney General for $15 Million
For-profit, Colorado-based Westwood College has reached a $15 million agreement with the Illinois attorney general, according to a report from a Chicago ABC News affiliate. The college voluntarily agreed to pay $15 million to wipe out loans [...]
Full Measure: Cash Cows: Military Colleges
November 1, 2015 — Full Measure brings you our investigation into how for-profit colleges allegedly preying on our military troops. Veterans with benefits and a desire to build a new life become targets, even given a [...]
Los Angeles Times: Generous GI Bill Isn’t Keeping Today’s Veterans Out of Student Loan Debt
Despite the generous benefits of the latest GI Bill, military veterans attending college are taking out substantial student loans, raising concerns among veterans' organizations that they are unnecessarily diving into debt. For most veterans, the [...]
Trib Live: EDMC, Federal Government Close to Settling Multi-Billion Dollar Suit
Education Management Corp. is close to settling a lawsuit in which the government sought to recover billions of dollars it alleged the Downtown-based operator of for-profit colleges obtained by falsely saying it was in compliance [...]
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