NPR’s Marketplace is running a two-part series on whether the cost of a degree at the University of Phoenix, the largest for-profit college in the country, is worth it. The first part of the series focuses on Phoenix’s shady recruitment and financial aid practices—and the consequences for students and taxpayers of students taking out federal [...]
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Distasteful
I’ve been trying to figure out why the University of Phoenix story bothers me so much, and I think I’ve come to an honest realization: at the heart of my disdain is the feeling that knowledge and learning should be freely acquired rights for all people. It strikes me as utterly distasteful that a profit [...]
Shameful Cont’d
Matt Yglesias responds to the University of Phoenix post below:
I think the main lesson here is that traditional universities need to do a better job of getting into the niche that’s currently dominated by these poorly performing for-profits. In part, state governments would do well to shift emphasis away from trying to burnish the sheen on [...]
Shameful (Part II)
Not to belabor Kevin’s point below, but these are serious allegations against the University of Phoenix (UOP) and its parent company, the Apollo Group. Three former students have begun a class action lawsuit against the company for improper handling of their federal student loans. The students allege that after dropping out early in their first [...]
Shameful
That’s the only word for the University of Phoenix’s conduct if the allegations described in today’s Higher Ed Watch and reported in the Chronicle are true. In a nutshell: Back in the early 90’s there were a series of scandals involving unscrupulous for-profit colleges that tricked students into borrowing lots of money through federal loan programs for [...]
A New Kind of Competition
Last week the University of Phoenix, the biggest private for-profit university in the nation, released its first “Academic Annual Report,” which compares the scores of Phoenix seniors to Phoenix freshmen on the Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress (MAPP) test, which is administered by ETS, the same folks who administer the SAT, AP, and GRE. [...]
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03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.