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Ex-Democratic Congressman Joins Board of For-Profit College That Preys On...
Perdoceo Education Corp., operator of for-profit colleges that have repeatedly faced law enforcement actions for deceiving and abusing low-income students, announced today that Alan Wheat, a former...
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ScAmerica: How We Got the President Trump We Deserved
The New York Times recently had a good round-up of podcasts covering American scams, businesses built on deceiving people — a category in the U.S. that accounts for billions in annual profits, and...
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Falsehood-Filled Website On For-Profit Colleges Shuts Down
Around March 31, a non-profit organization called Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), which has regularly attacked regulators and opponents of controversial corporations, posted a website...
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David Halperin biography
David Elliot Halperin (born November 28, 1962) is an American lawyer, policy advocate, organizational consultant, and investigative writer.[1] [2] He is a leading critic of for-profit higher education...
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Independence U. Lays Off Staff, Says Feds Stopped Aid
The Center for Excellence in Higher Education, operator of Independence University, has informed its staff that “most” employees will be laid off in the next few months. By messages sent on July 20,...
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Shuttered CEHE College Chain Gets Mixed Appeals Verdict
A panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals has upheld part, but also reversed part, of a trial judge’s $3 million verdict against the predatory college operation Center for Excellence in Higher...
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U. of Arizona Pulls Predatory Ashford U. Closer
At a trial in a San Diego courtroom late last year, lawyers from the California attorney general’s office presented powerful evidence regarding years of predatory abuses against students by for-profit...
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Feds Tell Accreditor SACS to Shape Up, Examine Keiser University
The U.S. Department of Education last month determined that one of the country’s major accreditors of colleges and universities is out of compliance with numerous federal regulations. It also directed...
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Independence U. Employee Got Threats After Speaking with U.S. Investigators
On April 27, 2021, Dorothy McCarty, a financial aid advisor at Independence University, an online career college, met via Zoom with investigators from the United States Department of Education to...
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Accreditor SACS Must End Abuses at Keiser University
On Friday I submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, as part of their ongoing process of evaluating college accrediting organizations, a comment on the accreditor Southern Association of...
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