August 4, 2010
An investigation conducted recently by the General Accountability Office exposed fraud and deception by some recruiters and admissions officers working for for-profit colleges. At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Gregory D. Kutz, who led the operation, played clips that showed recruiters encouraging fictional students to falsify their financial-aid forms and providing misleading information about their colleges’ costs and graduates’ earning potential.
A new site from The Chronicle presents graduation rates across states and institutions, puts them in context, and allows you to compare them.
Eighty-three percent of Americans believe the world's temperature is rising. Now researchers are studying why no one wants to talk about it.
Most scientists agree that it's getting hotter. But if you want to know why, and how, and what's going to happen next, the answers aren't as easy.
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1. ellis - August 05, 2010 at 09:54 am
I just have to say this. The sound of that charlatan "admissions supervisor" sleazebag tearing up the guy's admissions application EVEN AS HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO EXPLAIN HIS CONCERNS AND DO THE RESPONSIBLE THING, is absolutely appalling. The feds had bettr do something about this---and quickly.