An ordinance regulating private and vocational training schools and colleges not connected to a school or college district will take effect in 30 days following final approval Monday on a 4-0 vote with Councilman Ron Schnablegger absent because of illness.
The lobbying group of for-profit colleges, APSCU, today released a report, "Best Practices in Recruitment and Admissions." State and federal authorities, and private lawyers, have been investigating for-profit colleges, and winning settlements, arbitrations, and jury verdicts in cases where recruiters used coercive tactics and made false promises to prospective students about college costs, job placement rates, and other critical matters.
There is no question: the price of higher education has increased to a very unpopular standard. Some private colleges and universities will even ask for more than $60,000 for one year of education, while students in countries like Norway, Scotland, Spain, Morocco, and Turkey, can attend post-secondary education for free. For the United States, there is no such bargain. In the past decade, federal student loan debt more than doubled from $41 billion to $103 billion.
Representatives of for-profit colleges stepped up their criticism Monday of the Education Department’s efforts to rewrite the “gainful employment” rules that would apply to their institutions and vocational programs at community colleges.
Wellesley College will invite Xia Yeliang, a Chinese economics professor recently fired by Peking University and an outspoken advocate for democracy and human rights in China, to be a visiting fellow.
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