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Thu Sep-22-11 12:05 PM
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For-Profit Colleges, Vulnerable G.I.’s |
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MILITARY personnel and their families are finding themselves under siege from for-profit colleges. A number of these schools focus on members of the armed forces with aggressive and often misleading marketing, and then provide little academic, administrative or counseling support once the students are enrolled. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/opinion/for-profit-colleges-vulnerable-gis.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212
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Thu Sep-22-11 12:46 PM
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1. PBS just did *another* expose about how the for-profit colleges are vastly fleecing |
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the Dept of Veterans Affairs. $80K or more for Art Institute of American - wtfh?
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Thu Sep-22-11 01:15 PM
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2. I have seen this happen to Native Americans who are often financed |
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Thu Sep-22-11 08:12 PM
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3. These for profit a-holes advertise in those (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force) Times newspapers.. |
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...constantly. And that needs to be stopped.
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Fri Sep-23-11 11:11 AM
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