Article,
Battle over academic standards weighs on for-profit colleges
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition, (2005)
Abstract
Focuses on for-profit colleges in the United States and their legitimacy in the eyes of traditional colleges and universities. Reasons why traditional colleges rarely recognize the work done by students at for-profit colleges; Speculation about Congress passing legislation in favor of the for-profits, which are often owned by publicly-traded companies and heavily marketed; Number of for-profits that are recognized by the regional associations that have long set standards for traditional colleges; Example of a Florida man, Terry Pitts, who enrolled in Florida Metropolitan University (FMU) in Tampa, which is owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc.; Comments from Pitts regarding traditional school refusing to recognize his FMU degree.
Tags
- college
- colleges
- corinthian
- education
- entrance
- for-profit
- inc.
- private
- proprietary
- requirements
- schools
- standards
- students
- universities
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