Guest Articles Will the Media Also Examine the Clinton For-Profit Education Scandal? Roger Aronoff June 11, 2016 Is the race for the White House really coming down to which presidential candidate was tied to the less scandal-plagued…
Faculty Lounge North Carolina’s Approval of For-Profit Colleges is Anticompetitive Spencer Irvine October 26, 2015 Why is the state of North Carolina picking winners and losers in education? The free market should dictate, not some…
Faculty Lounge Emails Show Hillary Clinton Helped For-Profit College who Paid Bill Clinton $16 Million Spencer Irvine September 3, 2015 If for-profit colleges are a rip off, what do you call people who rip them off?
Faculty Lounge Online Master’s Degree More Attractive at Traditional Univeristies, Not For-Profits Spencer Irvine August 23, 2015 The College Fix noted the following: Earning a master’s degree from a for-profit online university may be a viable option,…
Faculty Lounge Backer of University of Phoenix Shelled Out $5 Million to Retired Founder Spencer Irvine June 29, 2015 The numbers don’t look good at all. A $5 million retirement bonus to the founder and former chairman of the…
Faculty Lounge Clinton Foundation Took For-Profit Schools’ Money, but Hillary Criticized For-Profits Spencer Irvine June 28, 2015 Sounds like double-talk or hypocrisy, doesn’t it? Criticize for-profit schools and then take their money?
Faculty Lounge For-Profit Online College will Close Spencer Irvine April 12, 2015 Jones International University, based in Colorado since its inception in 1993, will close its doors. From 2011 to 2014, reports…
Faculty Lounge University of Phoenix sees Enrollment Drop 14% Spencer Irvine March 31, 2015 Uh oh, is this the beginning of the end for for-profit colleges and their profit model? A 14% drop in…
Perspectives Colleges Slow to Adjust to New Norm of Part-Time Students Spencer Irvine November 11, 2014 Universities and colleges are slow to adjust to the new student: one who isn’t full-time and living on-campus, but the…
News Kaplan University Takes On Obama Spencer Irvine October 3, 2014 The U.S. Department of Education’s latest rule, the “gainful employment” or GE rule, mandates that for-profit colleges cannot saddle students…
News What Makes For-Profit Colleges Different? Ethan Gaitz June 10, 2014 Convention has mandated that once a student completes his/her high school studies, one must enroll at a four-year college or…