BY SHARON BASKIND-WING For-profit colleges are not deserving of your tax dollars. By now, most of us have heard of the many controversies surrounding these for-profit institutions: that they don’t deliver on employment promises, have poorly qualified faculty, are overpriced, spend too much on a racist recruitment process, and create more debt than their graduates…
POSTED BY JOAN W. SCOTT A group of academics is calling for a comprehensive policy for public higher education in response to the coronavirus pandemic. They are, rightly I think, suggesting that the various federal stimulus packages have not made higher education a central concern, nor have these packages addressed fundamental issues facing us. They…
Student Veterans of America (SVA) is a national organization dedicated to helping veterans “succeed in higher education and following graduation.” The SVA has a strong emphasis on student leadership and building connections between veterans in higher ed to help them adjust to life out of the military and in school. That’s why SVA leaders were…
[This post has been updated on 11/7/2011. The US Senate has said that for-profit colleges took in $626 million through the GI Bill, not $1 billion as they had initially reported] In the last few weeks, there’s been a lot of press about for-profit colleges and federal student aid. The big news is that the…