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Why Make Life Miserable For Proprietary Higher Ed?

In today’s Pope Center piece, Richard Bishirjian, president and founder of Yorktown University, writes about the assault that the Obama administration has launched against for-profit higher education.

The president wants Americans to think that he is not anti-business, but within the sphere of higher education at least, it’s hard to avoid that conclusion.

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   07/30/10 15:19

For-profit higher ed is using federal student aid and subsidized student loans to bring in unprepared students who default in high numbers, much higher than non-profit education. Good governance and reasonable stewardship of taxpayer money requires exactly the kind of investigation going on right now.

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