POSTED BY MARTIN KICH What follows is a news release from the Department of Education. Given how long it took the Department of Education to crack down on abuses at for-profit institutions, one wonders how much of that oversight will be reversed or simply ignored by the Trump administration. One would think that allowing a…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This satiric piece has been written by Seth Fried for the New Yorker. What follows is the second paragraph of the speech: “It will be sad to leave a place where we learned so much about ourselves, like when we all discovered, with some guidance, that the thirty-five-thousand-dollar Trump Élite Gold…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH President-Elect Trump Has Agreed to Pay $25 Million to Settle Civil Fraud Suits against Trump University By Washington Post Staff November 18 at 4:20 PM He has agreed to pay $25 million to former customers of the defunct real estate seminar program, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. From an…
BY TIFFANY KRAFT Guest Blogger Tiffany Kraft is an activist with Faculty Forward Network. It’s eye-popping to look at the facts and allegations involved in the open racketeering and fraud cases of Trump University, but it’s crucial to do so given that Donald Trump is running for the Oval Office. “It’s absolutely a con,” said…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following page is from a College Board Report on Student Debt: Of course, one of the factors in this decline has been the closure of several of the largest for-profit chains with dozens of campuses nationwide and the dramatic decline in enrollment at the major online for-profit institutions. So, although…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Education Dive has linked to an article in the New York Times on the chronology of the collapse of ITT Tech and has provided the following “Brief” of the article’s findings: “The New York Times examines the chronology of ITT Technical Institute’s historic collapse, which began in 1999, when a former employee sued…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article for Education Dive, Jarrett Carter presents the following three charts from other sources that indicate the collapse of for-profit higher education: Carter’s complete article is available at: http://www.educationdive.com/news/these-3-charts-show-the-collapse-of-for-profit-education/427480/.
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Anna Valero and John Van Reenen, both of the London School of Economics, have published one of the first studies to examine the impact of universities on national and regional growth, both within nations and across national borders. This is the abstract of their paper: “We develop a new dataset using…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is from the Progressive Review’s newsletter under the heading “Law Newz”: “Judge Curiel also found that there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Trump ‘knowingly participated’ in the ‘scheme to defraud’ and whether he made representations that were ‘false and misleading.’ Trump’s attorney filed a motion…
This article was written by Kevin Kinser, University at Albany, State University of New York, and originally published in The Conversation, an online magazine that allows articles to be reprinted in full, as long as the author and magazine are properly credited. The article provides insightful background on the evolution of for-profit colleges and universities over the…