3 thoughts on “The For-Profit College Scam in One Handy Infograph”
I work for a for profit school and yes the problems you mention are present, but the situation is far from black and white. I would also point out that my students are from populations which are for the most part not served by the “non-profit” schools. I was one of those students.
I myself earned my undergraduate degree while on active duty while stationed aboard a submarine. What traditional school was going to meet my needs? Was my education too expensive? After shopping around I was able to find a program that cost me a total of $700.00. I was able to borrow textbooks, but that was it … that was the whole thing. Compare this to my “non profit” student loan debt of over $30,000. Was my education education substandard? Beyond being in Liberal Arts (B.S. L.A.) no. I was accepted to two different graduate schools and earned a Ph.D. in particle physics.
What about my students?
My students are military -> Hence the large percentage of GI Bill recipients.
My students are poor -> Some are unskilled worker employed at two or three jobs and care for families. Some care for families with no employment.
Tuition is high, but we are not subsidized. The $75 per credit hour quoted is probably for a community college. These are also institutions which suffer enormous drop out rates and as mentioned are underfunded.
Just saying that one should not tar an entire industry with a single brush.
I think the success of for-profit higher education is part of what is fueling the supposed failure of public education. Cut the funding to the bone, then complain that it isn’t working anymore, and finally suggest that privatizing it is the answer. This formula is eroding public confidence in many government institutions and the profits from privatization can spin their failures onto the back pages while those at the top prosper.
At what point will we be too stupid and uneducated to see the dangers anymore?
“Not-for-profits” discriminate against the unqualified by setting objective standards of performance. Social equity is not equality or majority. Social equity is 100%. Social equity requires national legislation barring employment of any qualified degree holder until all unqualified degree holders are hired.
Diversity is admission for reason of disqualification. The University of Michigan is at the forefront of removing discriminatory barriers to degree certification,
Immigrant ethnic scum of the Earth bloodily competed to attend the City University of New York when no WASP school would admit them. The contingent social travesty is manifest,
CUNY now requires only a NYC high school diploma for admission, itself automatically granted through social promotion. CUNY is now an unlimited exercise of diversity. Its diplomas are single ply unperforated toilet paper.
I work for a for profit school and yes the problems you mention are present, but the situation is far from black and white. I would also point out that my students are from populations which are for the most part not served by the “non-profit” schools. I was one of those students.
I myself earned my undergraduate degree while on active duty while stationed aboard a submarine. What traditional school was going to meet my needs? Was my education too expensive? After shopping around I was able to find a program that cost me a total of $700.00. I was able to borrow textbooks, but that was it … that was the whole thing. Compare this to my “non profit” student loan debt of over $30,000. Was my education education substandard? Beyond being in Liberal Arts (B.S. L.A.) no. I was accepted to two different graduate schools and earned a Ph.D. in particle physics.
What about my students?
My students are military -> Hence the large percentage of GI Bill recipients.
My students are poor -> Some are unskilled worker employed at two or three jobs and care for families. Some care for families with no employment.
Tuition is high, but we are not subsidized. The $75 per credit hour quoted is probably for a community college. These are also institutions which suffer enormous drop out rates and as mentioned are underfunded.
Just saying that one should not tar an entire industry with a single brush.
I think the success of for-profit higher education is part of what is fueling the supposed failure of public education. Cut the funding to the bone, then complain that it isn’t working anymore, and finally suggest that privatizing it is the answer. This formula is eroding public confidence in many government institutions and the profits from privatization can spin their failures onto the back pages while those at the top prosper.
At what point will we be too stupid and uneducated to see the dangers anymore?
“Not-for-profits” discriminate against the unqualified by setting objective standards of performance. Social equity is not equality or majority. Social equity is 100%. Social equity requires national legislation barring employment of any qualified degree holder until all unqualified degree holders are hired.
Diversity is admission for reason of disqualification. The University of Michigan is at the forefront of removing discriminatory barriers to degree certification,
http://www.diversity.umich.edu/programs/
DIVERSITY! Find even one Gifted program at U of M.
Immigrant ethnic scum of the Earth bloodily competed to attend the City University of New York when no WASP school would admit them. The contingent social travesty is manifest,
http://www.cuny.edu/about/people/alumni/nobel-laureates.html
CUNY now requires only a NYC high school diploma for admission, itself automatically granted through social promotion. CUNY is now an unlimited exercise of diversity. Its diplomas are single ply unperforated toilet paper.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Where_the_Buffalo_Roam#Dialogue
Near first page bottom. Nixon’s comment upon “the doomed.”