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Massachusetts Attorney General Is Latest to Probe For-Profit Colleges

May 16, 2011, 2:51 pm

The attorney general of Massachusetts is investigating at least three for-profit-college companies for questionable recruiting and related practices, making it the fifth state (Florida, Illinois, Iowa, and Kentucky are the others) where direct investigations into the colleges are known to be under way.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, the University of Phoenix revealed itself as the latest target. The Apollo Group, the university’s parent company, said the Massachusetts office was seeking information about the university’s practices there dating back to January 2002. The company also said it believed Massachusetts was part of a coordinated investigation by several attorneys general. A spokesman for the Massachusetts attorney general said he could not comment on that or whether other colleges were under scrutiny.

Corinthian Colleges Inc. and Kaplan Higher Education had each previously disclosed receiving similar “civil investigative demands” from the Massachusetts attorney general about recruiting practices on two of Corinthian’s Everest Institute campuses, in Brighton and Chelsea, and one Kaplan Career Institute, in Boston.

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  • willynilly

    More great news.  The vise is tightening ever so slowly but so surely on the knuckles of those for-profit scam schools who deceived the public, their students and the Feds into letting them get their hands on millions of dollars for which they gave little to nothing in return to victimized students.  The march to justice has begun and will continue to spread to state after state.    At the very least, the students who now hold burdensome loan paybacks for an inferior and useless education should be made whole on the backs of the scam artists who literally stole their money with fraudulent claims about their services. 

  • http://twitter.com/#!/ProprietaryEd ForProfitEd

    What about all of the MA residents Apollo and others have enrolled into fully online programs?  It seems the AG’s are only looking into ground campus programs.  Increasingly massive numbers are being enrolled into 100% online programs by the (often publicly traded) for-profit schools under scrutiny.  It seems online students are easier to keep out of the radar.

    If AG’s are looking to protect state residents, they must include information pertaining to residents enrolled into online programs at these institutions, often using out-of-state OPE ID’s.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NHZO25JZG6AONOHE65YWZ62I3I HeXt

    This makes my day. I know I’m doing all I can to help them. I learned my claim was closed, I had it reopened.

  • educationfrontlines

    Each morning, at schools across China, students conduct regular “eye exercises” aimed at reducing the eye strain that comes with the continual up-close focusing that comes with intense and prolonged reading.  

    These percentages were just as high when I taught in Hong Kong 1975-78. This “epidemic” has been longstanding and is far better understood in China than is reflected in this summary or the Lancet article.

    There is a troubling tone to the title of this brief snippet: “… Caused by Too Much Studying.” 
    Really?  (If only America had this problem on a large scale.)

    John Richard Schrock

  • jnbarnes

    The Lancet IS peer-reviewed according to their website: http://www.thelancet.com/lancet-information-for-authors/how-the-lancet-handles-your-paper.

    The authors listed are NOT optometrists according to the paper: ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Research School of Biology, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (Prof I G Morgan PhD); Department of Preventive Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Prof I G Morgan); Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan (Prof K Ohno-Matsui MD); Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health Systems, Singapore (Prof S-M Saw PhD); and Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore (Prof S-M Saw). 

    This is assuming I found the correct aforementioned paper, Lancet 2012; 379: 1739–48. Could someone actually put a citation in these blog posts so that the article is easily found? This was in the previous issue of The Lancet.

    The jab at the mechanism seems gratuitous, the authors clearly state more needs to be done “Further progress in our understanding of the natural history of pathological myopia is thus essential, and while there have been some promising developments in treatment, more effective treatments are still required.” 

    Finally, this tertiary reporting…. CHE reporting what the WSJ says about a Lancet article…. just seems to be trolling for something to put on the CHE site and not real reporting, I ca’t tell if the blogger actually read the Lancet or just the WSJ. 

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