What an eye-opener to see that the roster for the U.S. presidency includes candidates that are engaged in this "higher-ed" hustle.  Check out the Miami Herald's year-long investigation of the higher education industry.  They serve 300,000 students spread out over 1000 campuses.  They get billions of financial aid state dollars, as well as millions of dollars of state money—enabled by policies that allow for the expansion of such so-called colleges and universities.  What a scam.  And they leave low-income families that are vulnerable to their messages in disarray.  Hear about their damaged lives in this news report here.  This bilking of the federal financial aid purse and to do so at these students' expense is unconscionable.

-Angela

Higher-Ed Hustle: For-profit colleges cast shadow over presidential race

By Michael Vasquez and Patricia Mazzei
mrvasquez@MiamiHerald.com

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign spent the past week touting her new plan to make college affordable — in part by cracking down on “predatory” colleges, and forcing schools to “spend federal dollars on things that benefit students, like teaching and research, not marketing campaigns.”
What Clinton didn’t mention: Her husband, Bill, has been paid more than $16 million as “honorary chancellor” of Laureate Education, the world’s largest for-profit college company. The firm is being sued by several online graduate students for allegedly dishonest practices, and a 2012 U.S Senate report found that more than half of Laureate’s online Walden University revenue went to marketing and profit.
Republicans quickly went on the attack. “Clinton’s College Hypocrisy Tour Rolls On” read the subject line from a Republican National Committee e-mail to reporters.
What the RNC didn’t mention: The GOP field of 2016 presidential hopefuls is filled with candidates who have close ties to for-profit colleges. Marco Rubio listed two for-profit executives (and the industry’s former top Florida lobbyist) as “contributors” to his 2006 book, 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future. Jeb Bush gave a keynote speech at the for-profit industry’s Washington trade association last year, for which he was paid $51,000.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump is being sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over his now-shuttered “Trump University” business school. Schneiderman has said Trump University used false promotional materials and “was a scam from top to bottom.”

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