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white cloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-11 12:05 PM
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For-Profit Colleges, Vulnerable G.I.’s
MILITARY personnel and their families are finding themselves under siege from for-profit colleges. A number of these schools focus on members of the armed forces with aggressive and often misleading marketing, and then provide little academic, administrative or counseling support once the students are enrolled.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/opinion/for-profit-colleges-vulnerable-gis.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212
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Hestia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-11 12:46 PM
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1. PBS just did *another* expose about how the for-profit colleges are vastly fleecing
the Dept of Veterans Affairs. $80K or more for Art Institute of American - wtfh?
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-11 01:15 PM
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2. I have seen this happen to Native Americans who are often financed
by their colleges.
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Crowman1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-11 08:12 PM
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3. These for profit a-holes advertise in those (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force) Times newspapers..
...constantly. And that needs to be stopped.
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white cloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-11 11:11 AM
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4. Good point on ads
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