June 15, 2007

Student-Aid Officials at Capella and Widener U.'s Lose Their Jobs in College-Loan Controversy

By PAUL BASKEN and JOSH KELLER

Student-aid officials at Capella University and Widener University have lost their jobs after being accused of receiving payments from a loan company that they had recommended to students.

Capella, an online for-profit institution based in Minnesota, fired Timothy Lehmann as its financial-aid director, the university announced last week. Walter Cathie retired last week from his job as assistant vice president for finance at Widener, said Dan Hanson, a spokesman for the private

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