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salin

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7. I think there are still some decent ones - usually for specific trades/training
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:54 PM
Sep 2016

but in the early 2000s a few big industry players started gaming the system specifically to get access to billions of $ in student loans and aid. Wall street got involved in a number of them and concerns for students beyond filling seats (for a day or two was all it took for a semester worth of student loans). The large players started getting larger, scammier, and apparently in the case of some that had been decent huge expansion of recruiters over teachers/job placement etc. there were extreme declines in the quality of education or training provided.

Sadly the growing companies often bought small decent schools and converted into the scam schools. Now as those are shutting down including the campuses that were once decent enterprises.

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That's awesome, they have been a sad joke in the IT realm for years Tarc Sep 2016 #1
Add Trump university to the list malaise Sep 2016 #2
Are all for-profit colleges scams? former9thward Sep 2016 #5
I think there are still some decent ones - usually for specific trades/training salin Sep 2016 #7
While I hate the Trump U rip off - it was tiny tater tots to the scope and vileness of these salin Sep 2016 #22
A fate they so richly deserved. What a vile & evil entity that should have been long put down. GOLGO 13 Sep 2016 #3
Excellent! PersonNumber503602 Sep 2016 #4
agreed. Also I hope some find their way to more affordable and higher quality community colleges salin Sep 2016 #8
Great News Johnny2X2X Sep 2016 #6
I read an account from a former local administrator that the school would constantly salin Sep 2016 #9
It's horrendous behavior Johnny2X2X Sep 2016 #10
David Halperin wrote a very detailed book salin Sep 2016 #11
I read some of this last night Johnny2X2X Sep 2016 #12
I am right there with you! salin Sep 2016 #15
They've left thousands of former students in the lurch, with thousands of dollars in debt. LongTomH Sep 2016 #13
Spoke with a Dean at a local college salin Sep 2016 #14
This makes me sick Johnny2X2X Sep 2016 #18
I stumbled onto Halperin's work and book about 2 yrs ago salin Sep 2016 #21
Damage was already done Johnny2X2X Sep 2016 #16
now they need to go after the Medicare back / knee brace people Skittles Sep 2016 #17
who knows maybe some of the scams overlap. salin Sep 2016 #19
Sucks for the students and teachers, but fuck these for profit leeches. Initech Sep 2016 #20
...and plenty more ready to turn turtle the same way. But the WaPo made millions. Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #23
What does that tell us? Graham held on to Kaplan U but sold the WaPo salin Sep 2016 #24
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