A federal whistle-blower lawsuit accusing American InterContinental University of unlawfully paying its student recruiters and lying to an accrediting agency about the qualifications of its students and faculty members could be headed to a courtroom within a year, now that a judge in Atlanta this week rejected attempts by the university and its parent company, the Career Education Corporation, to have the case dismissed. A lawyer for the former AIU employees who filed the suit (including one who was an academic-affairs vice president and acting president of an Atlanta-area campus) said “systemic” abuses by the university allowed it to fraudulently obtain as much as $500-million from 2001 through at least 2007. Career Education maintains that the case is without merit.
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12 Responses to Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Against For-Profit University May Proceed, Judge Rules
willynilly - November 23, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Good. This will allow more of the unethical practices of these for-profits to be brought to the attention of the public. Now all that we need to hope for is that the media will give the case the coverage necessary to protect he public from putting themselves ointo the hands of these profit seeking educational hucksters.
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609zr - August 30, 2011 at 10:35 pm
AMIDEAST gave scholarships to several Gaza students to study at universities in the United States. Hamas, for the moment, has denied their travel to and study in America. Internationalization has always been a “means to an end.” It is the means by which a few ensure their positions, raise their salaries and dupe Federal governments out of more money.
evaegronpolak - August 31, 2011 at 5:07 am
Thanks first to Francisco Marmolejo for getting the news out about the new IAU Ad hoc Expert Group which is already engaged in a dynamic debate. I would go one step further than the question posed by Francisco ‘are we prepared for the changes in internationalization? I would add several others, such as; given the fact that internationalization is becoming so pervasive, how do we prepare the future of this process? If it is an means to an end, how do we ensure that it serves to reach the ends we want it to reach? Can we reach an agreement, at the international level, on what these ends should be since the goals pursued are multiple?
I will be reading the comments to this blog entry with interest and thanks to all who contribute.
Francois Therin - August 31, 2011 at 9:29 am
Could you tell us more ? What are you suggesting to enhance/change the current practices ?
Meritocracy Man - August 31, 2011 at 9:49 am
I am a huge proponent of internationalizing curricula with dual degrees from branch campuses across the globe. The Haas School of Business in Berkeley, California and Columbia University in New York City already offer one of the most prestigious joint-MBA programs in the U.S. I foresee similar cooperation in the future between institutions of higher-education on a global scale. It will add significantly more value to study abroad programs worldwide. To many American students, a semester abroad is an extended vacation. But if we change the expectations of such a shared experience, demanding more from our students than a few months of pass-fail grades, then everyone involved will gain more from the experience. Rather than being a student of the University of Texas who spent a semester abroad at the University College London, why not be a dual student of both universities, spending nearly equal time on both campuses, immersed in both cultures?
In the first paragraph above, you mention “brain drain” versus “brain circulation.” Will you please elaborate on this comparison?
ketoril - September 2, 2011 at 1:43 am
Comment from Finland,
It is interesting to follow discussion of the international activities. It is important that students meet new cultures during their studies. It means that they must also studu othet languages than English to be able understand other cultures. Is small countries like in Finland it is a must to study many foreign languages. And for US students and professors it is very important to go abroad not teach their own culture but to leran other cultures top be able to understand the world. When double degrees are planned there is a possibilty to take new components to the curriculum. That is real international cooperation. One element of learning other cultures is to live among normal people not live in separate campus area where you meet only academic groups.
pesor33 - September 4, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Higher education is alive and well. I went to a residency for my doctoral program. I was amazed how many people are in doctoral programs. It is definitely changing. Technology has aided in that area. I am receiving my entire program online. That has been a wonderful change. I would never have been able to go forward with my education if I could not have taken online classes.
11302531 - September 5, 2011 at 9:49 am
When I first saw this article, I was puzzled. Then it made me recall a discussion about another field some 20 years ago. Among organization development practitioners, there was the same question asked. Do you study org development for its own sake, or in the context of creating more effective change processes for other purposes, like improving R&D, or doing better implementation of IT systems. I think the answer is ‘both’. And, it asks those of us committed to internationalization of higher education to consider the educational purposes: cross-cultural competence? developing global thinkers? “simply” developing critical thinkers? empathy? equipping everyone and anyone to live a rich life in a world that is inextricably and wonderfully tightly connected? Or, assuring that our engineers and physicians can appreciate and function in culturally different settings, effectively? So if a college or university pursues an internationalization strategy, then that institution should have some sense of the purposes the strategy is designed to serve. Otherwise, how else to select sensibly from among the many program options those which is makes most sense support, grow and fund, at one particular institution?
hodgefam - September 5, 2011 at 11:33 pm
This blog post on higher-education internationalization motivated me to do some further reading on the Web. Interestingly, I came across the 2003 IAU Survey Report on the internationalization of higher education (http://www.unesco.org/iau/internationalization/pdf/Internationalisation-en.pdf). I noted that among the IAU members who responded (176 IAU member HEIs out of 621), the top six reasons for internalization focused on academics: student mobility, teaching and research collaboration, improvement of academic quality, curriculum development, etc. Reasons for internationalization that focused on political, economic, and social/cultural issues were in the bottom six. As mentioned in the report, I suspect that if national leaders were surveyed they would consider the political, economic, and social benefits of internationalization to be more important.
“Brain drain” was the most frequently mentioned downside of internationalization in the IAU survey. To combat brain drain, are there countries that fund the international education of their citizens in exchange for a commitment to return home for a certain number of years?
jcmarsh106 - September 10, 2011 at 5:38 pm
A good way for the United States higher education system to prepare for “internationalization” is to have a better world view of the importance of education especially at the college and university levels. Every country is not as fortunate to have in place an educational system that is available in the United States. Higher education should never be taken for granted.
pgteach - September 12, 2011 at 11:54 pm
The internationalization of higher education should not be focused only on the academic factors of educating international students, but on the financial stability and income components. The influx of international students is nothing new and has been part of the United States educational system for as long as our founding fathers were building our nation. International students are rich sources for money, ideas, bridging cultural differences, and exposure to other cultures. Before we begin to develop an international curriculum, should we not first develop a national curriculum for students?