Maryland Bill Cracks Down on For-Profit Colleges

April 6, 2011, 3:17 pm

Maryland lawmakers have passed legislation that they say is the most far-reaching state oversight of the for-profit-college industry. Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to sign the measure, Senate Bill 695, which gives the Maryland Higher Education Commission the authority to regulate the colleges and prohibits incentive pay for student recruiters. It also phases out state-financed aid for students at for-profit colleges, according to a news release from State Sen. Paul G. Pinsky, a Democrat.

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kfoxt11

Nice for you to revisit the uses of the iPad, especially for teaching.

Right now, I’m using the iPad most for reading long docs and for keeping up on news by using Zite and Flipboard.

Question: what’s the best app for organizing events and tasks related to the event? I’ve been trying to organize using Evernote and it’s just not feeling right. Same for SpringPad.

My example, is having a presentation at a conference. So I have the conference listed as an event, but I want to add tasks that need to be completed leading up to the event: hotel reservations, preparing for the presentation, etc.

Suggestions. Thanks in advance.
willynilly

Finally, a State astute enough to protect its citizens from these scamming business operations that were originally misnamed as “schools, colleges, and universities”.
greeneyeshade

Too bad this is in a state where most of the population lives close to D.C., Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
pokerpoodle

So now we have only socialized education available to a state’s citizens. This means the tax dollars of citizens of Maryland must pay for the college education of all students educated in the state. When you have For-Profit education, it means that the users accept responsibility for the cost of their education. Public education means the state accepts that responsibility. If this works so well, why don’t we do the same thing for medicine?
rhancuff

I think you are conflating for-profit with private. The bill doesn’t say anything about private colleges and universities, so students still have that option if they want state money (which of course goes to your larger confusion, which is that Marylanders can still go the for-profit route…they just can’t state money to do it).
willynilly

My friend, you need to be dealt a new hand. You appear to be one of those innocent folks who believes that “For-Profit” means no public (taxpayer) money is involved. Call up your favorite for-profit and ask them how much public (Federal & State) money they receive? They will not answer you truthfully, but the number they give you will be large enough to sober you up. I do hope that you were not that naive to believe that the for-profits ran these business, i.e. paid all operating expenses, purchased capital equipment, maintained facilities, paid faculty and staff, retired debt service, established fund balances and paid HUGE salaries and bonuses to senior management – all on student tuition. Has it yet to occurred to you as to why Washington D.C., all the State Capitals, all the regional accrediting bodies and most editorial boards of major newspapers are cracking down on these scam places. If you can’t figure that out for yourself, I’ll give you a clue. It is not because they believe these places are wonderful destinations for students, and citadels of savings for taxpayers.
gplm2000

All states need to pass the same bill. Public monies are what keep these schools in business, especially federal largesse for minorities and military. I have taught at several and can say without equivocation that most of the students are not qualified to be in college, would never do well in non-profit schools, and expect an easy ride to a degree to improve employment. They go into considerable debt as a result of easy money from the feds and state. If asked, and I hate to say it, but I would recommend U.District Columbia over a for-profit. I can’t believe I said that…
director19

Incentive pay is already restricted by federal rules. So Maryland is really regulating nothing. It wouldbe good if the fine legislators could actually read. Perhaps they all went to non-profit colleges?
gsudduth

‘I have taught at several and can say without equivocation that most of the students are not qualified to be in college, would never do well in non-profit schools, and expect an easy ride to a degree to improve employment.’

This is an interesting statement, gplm. I did the same, and for a lot of years until I was discarded like so many of the students who couldn’t pay anymore; however, I know that the folks I worked with were all trying to help the students become better, basically by trying to teach them what they did NOT receive in their respective High Schools. That doesn’t make all of these for profits evil. Unfortunately when these schools use ethics and employee retention propaganda through it’s HR program making believe that you are an asset to the company and school, suddenly the focus is not on student success but corporate bottom lines.

Seems like to me there needs to be a meeting of the educational mind set of the country formulating success programs that identify potentiality for all students whether it be for future Doctors or the medical personnel that serve them, Car designers or the mechanics that fix them.
Private law schools or private corporate profit schools operating as Trade schools, we need to stop pointing fingers and start trying to help all students on the road to not only education but gainful employment.
utchron9

Instead of making it more difficult for “for-profit” companies to engage in the business of education, why don’t politicians who are concerned about education work on (1) Improving education at state-universities and (2) Increasing student access and support at these state-universities? Make the state schools better, and students would not be as tempted to run to the for-profits when they need help. I also wonder if a strong vocational-education system would help out for these students who are tempted to rack up thousands in student loans in questionable programs.
mbelvadi

Western science, aka the ‘scientific method’ that is the basis for what you are calling ‘medicine’ doesn’t actually claim to “prove” anything. Try this page for a good layperson explanation of the philosophy behind the Scientific Method: http://mrhoyestokwebsite.com/AOKs/Natural%20Science/Useful%20Information/The%20Scientific%20Method.htm

By the way, your so-called “proven medicine” supposedly proved that Thalidomide was safe for pregnant women to take, that Vioxx was safe, etc. I’m certainly not defending quack alternative medicine, but your blind certitude in the conclusions of “medicine” flies in the face of a huge amount of evidence.