by Supporting Education | Dec 19, 2019 | News, Student Issues
At the center of the scandals involving for-profit colleges has been dishonesty about the value of their education. The schools under the Corinthian Colleges umbrella, which were all closed abruptly in 2015, lost their accreditation over their written promises that...
by Supporting Education | Oct 11, 2019 | News
In 1995, the Department of Education started the Borrower Defense to Repayment program. It was built to allow students deceived by dishonest academic institutions to be forgiven their student loans. In 2016, the Obama administration finalized rules for the program,...
by Supporting Education | Jan 30, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Career Education Corporation is the business behind Colorado Technical University and American InterContinental University, two for-profit remote learning schools that together enroll approximately 34,000 students. While both schools are still accredited, they...
by Sarah Green | Apr 7, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Here’s some good news for students who were attending classes at a school that suddenly closed: the Department of Education has announced that their Pell Grant eligibility will be restored. The department is going to email Pell Grant recipients who went to for-profit...
by Sarah Green | Sep 23, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Photo: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com For anyone watching, September has been a domino chain of disaster for students at the for-profit educational franchise ITT Tech. In August, the federal Department of Education banned the company from enrolling any new students...