August 1, 2010
Government Scrutinizes Incentive Payments for College Recruiters
Airman Jerilyn Quintanilla, U.S. Air Force
A recruiter from Ashford U. talks with a prospective student at a college fair held at an Air Force base near Tucson. Ashford, which ranked ninth among colleges in the number of students receiving Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits in the past academic year, has a recruiting division specifically for members of the military.
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Airman Jerilyn Quintanilla, U.S. Air Force
A recruiter from Ashford U. talks with a prospective student at a college fair held at an Air Force base near Tucson. Ashford, which ranked ninth among colleges in the number of students receiving Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits in the past academic year, has a recruiting division specifically for members of the military.
Brent Park had been working as a recruiter at Ashford University for six months when a supervisor sat him down and told him to sign up more students, or else.
"I was told I needed to bring my numbers up. They said, 'You need two applications by the end of the week.'"
When he didn't make the quota, he says, he was fired.
A spokeswoman for Bridgepoint Education, Ashford's parent company, said that the for-profit institution does not have enrollment quotas and that
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