Promises and Profits

A for-profit college is under investigation for pumping up enrollment while skimping on education

Time was running out. It was just days before the 2004 spring quarter was to start, and administrators at American InterContinental University's campus here were struggling to meet the enrollment targets set for them by the for-profit college's corporate parent.

The goal was to have more than 350 new "starts" for the term. That meant that the college's recruiters needed to sign up

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