Westwood College is in trouble with another state regulatory agency. The for-profit institution, which already faces probation in Colorado and a possible shutdown in Texas, was ordered by Wisconsin regulators on Thursday to cease enrolling students in the state or face fines of up to $500 per day, according to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit organization in Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Educational Approval Board, which regulates for-profit colleges, said Westwood was providing online classes without its approval. A spokeswoman for Westwood College Online declined to comment on Thursday to the investigative-journalism center.
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4 Responses to Wisconsin Orders Westwood College Online to Stop Enrolling Students
disembedded - September 17, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Get rid of the spam!!
disgusted2 - September 20, 2010 at 9:26 pm
For profits are merely money-making predators hiding under the auspices of education. Hope this is the beginning of what will be the end of scamming students and giving out bogus degrees.
christianson2180 - September 21, 2010 at 12:28 pm
While I certainly do not condone practices mentioned in this and related articles, I have to wonder about the lack of intelligence or backbone that leads people such as these to sign up for irrelevant or purposeless courses of study. I know many proprietary institutions that operate soundly and ethically, as well as provide a high level of instruction. The inability to discern the good from the not-good is disturbing.
jrod643 - September 21, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Christianson2180- The problem lies with those who are unwilling, too ignorant, or simply not well enough educated to do actual research on the institution itself. Students are Naive and have no idea what makes determines a good University from a bad one. A lot of times students don’t even attend a University based on academic reasons but rather what they’ve heard about the instituion from there peers. A student doesn’t necessarily go to Illinois because of it’s engineering program but usually attends based on what they know the school to be like from their peers. Unfortunately this is the naivity of students today. Nonprofit media outlets need to make a more conserted effort to educate the general public on education as a whole so that when the time for a student to make a decision on their education comes they are well educated with facts and research, not marketing campaign and peer reviews. For Profit Universities are not the real problem here. It mainly boils down those they target unable to understand what exactly they are getting into. I don’t think stricter regulatory measures are necessary but rather a general education of the public on how to delineate between a school that will actually be worth the investment of 60K+/- and a school that simply will not help them achieve their goals.