Tag Archives: for-profit

Department of Education’s New Student Aid Rules

Published on Monday, November 1st, 2010 Nohel
Tags: federal student aid, Financial Aid, for-profit, proprietary colleges, student aid

(San Francisco, CA)-  In recent news, for-profit institutions have been receiving a lot of press for their use of student aid and the resulting debt students leave with. Recently, Secretary Arne Duncan and the U.S. Department of Education have issued new student financial aid rules against the for-profit higher education sector. This comes after much [...]

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Denver Is A Prospect for Future College Expansions

Published on Saturday, October 16th, 2010 James
Tags: career and technical education, Colorado colleges, Denver, Denver colleges, Everest College, for profit colleges, for-profit, Lincoln Technical Institute, online classes, online college, online college courses

For-profit colleges have been experiencing a rapidly increasing demand. Not only for traditional college settings, but online colleges have been the most popular demand among those looking to better their lives where modern technology made it as convenient as realistically possible. There are pro’s and con’s to having for-profit colleges serve our communities.  Some of [...]

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Westwood College Forced To Stop Enrolling Students

Published on Saturday, September 25th, 2010 James
Tags: for profit colleges, for-profit, online college, online college degree, University of Phoenix, Westood College, Westwood, Westwood College Wisconsin, Westwood lawsuit, Wisconsin

In a previous news article, we revealed how Westwood College found themselves in a lawsuit predicament. This for-profit online college that was serving Wisconsin residents lacked the appropriate accreditation from the Department of Education. With students finding themselves overloaded with student loans to get an education from a school like Westwood College, we felt this [...]

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Can This Online College Really Help African American Students Similar to HBCU’s?

Published on Saturday, September 4th, 2010 Nohel
Tags: african american students, black students, for-profit, for-profit institutions, HBCU, HBCUs, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, online college, online college courses, online colleges, online education

An article recently published in the Chronicle touched on the topic of a current project to develop “distance-education programs—with a particular focus on allowing them to compete against for-profit colleges in enrolling minority students.”  This project is called HBCUsOnline and is designed to provide an online solution for African American students that seek online education. [...]

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Changes at Capella University with New President

Published on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Nohel
Tags: Capella, Capella online college, Capella University, for profit colleges, for-profit, online classes, online college, online college courses, online college degree, online colleges, online degree, online graduate school, online school, proprietary colleges

Capella University is an online for-profit college that is 100% virtual offering a variety of online college courses.  They do not have a physical campus where students can go and sit in lecture.  It was established in 1991 by Dr. Harold Abel and Stephen Shank, former CEO of Tonka.  Abel and Shank wanted to create [...]

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University of Phoenix Parent, Apollo Group, on Defensive

Published on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Nohel
Tags: Apollo Group, completion rates, department of ed, department of education, for profit colleges, for-profit, graduation rates, lead gen, lead generation, lead generators, Obama's college graduation rates, online college, online college classes, online college courses, Online College Degrees, online college program, online colleges, online school, proprietary colleges, Univerisity of Phoenix

In a recent article in the Chronicle, it was disclosed that many for-profit colleges are under the microscope in Congress.  In recent news, these “institutions” of higher education have been on the defensive having to explain their bold recruiting practices and ridiculously high student-loan default rates. Most recently, the nation’s largest for-profit higher-education company, the [...]

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