News of Articles

Title: Questions raised about state's oversight of for-profit colleges
Date: May 10, 2012
Author: Jeff Chirico

I pretty much just watched the video and looked at the picture. Politics are complicated.

Bill Crews, executive director of NPEC, admitted his agency does not do all it should to protect students

Source:http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/18254503/questions-raised-over-states-oversight-of-for-profit-colleges

Title: Phoenix PD: Suspect arrested after ITT Technical Institute shooting
Date: 04/24/2012
Author: Kimberly Cheng

There are two videos that accompany the article. They are television news reports.
I can honestly say that I do not recall ever fantasizing about shooting my ITT Tech "Student Representative" in her stomach.
I actually kind of got to know a former recruiter that worked at one of the EDMC schools. As much as I wanted to dislike him, ...

Title: Student veterans group revokes charters from 26 schools
Date: April 2012
Author: Mary Beth Marklein

More than a dozen for-profit colleges responded to an alert sent earlier this month that their chapters were at risk of losing SVA recognition. Indiana-based ITT Educational Services, which operates 140 technical institutes, is working to resolve the problem on three of its campuses,

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-04-26/student-veterans-schools/54541468/1

Title: Clever Is as Clever Does
Date: SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012
Author: BILL ALPERT

Trade-school students take out more loans—97% of them borrow, compared with just 13% at community colleges—and default on them at twice the rate of their non-profit peers. With more than 140 locations, the company's ITT Technical Institute charges among the highest tuition in ...

Title: BSO Sergeant Accused of Falsifying Records Is a Teacher at FAU, ITT Tech
Author: Rich Abdill
Date: Mar. 26 2012

A Broward Sheriff's Office internal affairs investigator who admitted to lying in a report earlier this year is teaching criminal justice classes at the ITT Technical Institute in Fort Lauderdale, according to documents just released.

Source: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/03/bso_sergeant_lying_itt_tech.php

Source PDF: http://prin.tt/He0EiN

Title: Stop starving our state universities
Date: 03/22/2012
Author: Steve Scauzillo

While for-profit colleges are raking in students and profits, our own Cal State Universities are being sucked dry by the state and are closing their doors and windows quicker than a Midwestern homeowner in the path of twister.

Source: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinion ... iversities

Source PDF: http://prin.tt/GWyNEh

Title: 7 ways to tackle the nation's student debt crisis
Date: January 23, 2012
Author: Lynn O'Shaughnessy .



Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57363437/7-ways-to-tackle-the-nations-student-debt-crisis/

Source PDF: http://prin.tt/AaDbC6

Title: College students trapped with big debt and few jobs after attending expensive for-profit schools
Date: Thursday, December 01, 2011
Author: Alabama Education Association (AEA)

Richardson then enrolled in the school’s online program before her student loan debt soared to roughly $60,000, forcing to her to give up for good. She later learned she could have earned more as an unskilled insurance claims worker at a hospital.

Source: http://blog.al.com/school-journal/2011/12/college_students_trapped_with.html

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Title: For-Profit Colleges Allow Cheating, U.S. Investigators Say
Date: November 24, 2011
Author: John Hechinger

Seven of 12 for-profit colleges attended online by undercover U.S. investigators violated school policies on cheating, grading standards and loan counseling, a report by the Government Accountability Office found.

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-24/for-profit-colleges-allow-cheating-u-s-investigators-say.html

Title: Before Signing On: A Checklist
Date: November 4, 2011
Author: LAURA PAPPANO

List includes: COURSE QUALITY, EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT, TECH SUPPORT, CREDIT TRANSFER, ACCREDITATION,
COST, JOBS AND OTHER INDICATORS. I am totally against "schools" like Kaplan, but this article still has some good info.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/before-signing-on-a-checklist.html?_r=2