Eric Dean made a career of calling military veterans urging them to enroll at Ashford University, a for-profit school based in San Diego. He says he had been “pressured into essentially selling my soul to throw fellow veterans under the bus.” (1/8)
through federal financial aid. The schools also spend heavily on marketing and recruiting students who qualify for federal aid, especially veterans.
The Department of Education under Obama created a “borrower defense” rule, making it easier for students to be relieved of their federal student loans if a school is found to have used illegal or deceptive tactics in recruiting them.” rule required schools to demonstrate their graduates are making a living wage.
“It seems these measures are intended to resuscitate the industry and allow new bad actors to emerge or to allow bad actors that have lost a lot of enrollment to be able to grow again,” he said.After four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, during which he earned a Bronze Star, U.S. Army drill sergeant Andres Figueroa wanted to start a new career at a TV sports channel. He enrolled at Full Sail University, a for-profit in Orlando, Florida, to learn how to operate camera equipment.
“Film students spend hundreds of hours using gear and software that is specific to the learning objectives of the course and the program,” she said, noting that any student with concerns is encouraged to “reach out to us.” Because the enrollment process was often rushed, the recruiter said, some agreed to take out additional loans without realizing it.“We have a thorough process to inform and counsel incoming students. We have a strong record of supporting veterans,” the statement said.
Education Department spokeswoman Liz Hill told NBC News that transparency around for-profits would help weed out underperforming schools. She cited an interagency working group that strives to inform veterans about “scams.” Still, critics say DeVos’s decision to ease rules — and, separately, to reinstate an accreditor — organizations responsible for accrediting colleges — behind two major for-profits that are now defunct — will make it easier for problematic schools to prey on veterans. DeVos says the rules placed unfair burdens on for-profits that public and nonprofit institutions don’t face.
Trump, who once ran the for-profit Trump University, agreed in 2017 to pay $25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by students who said they were defrauded. Trump repeatedly denied the fraud claims and said he could have won at trial. The two for-profit schools that have received the most GI Bill-funded tuition payments since 2009, the University of Phoenix and, have both paid hefty settlements to the federal and many state governments to resolve claims that they pressured students to sign up. EDMC in 2015 agreed to pay $95.5 million to resolve allegations it violated federal law by paying employees based on student enrollment, even as it said the claims were without merit.
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