Thread regarding Education Management Corporation layoffs

Joint Letter Questions New Ownership of Predatory Colleges

"As poor student outcomes and predatory recruiting practices at for-profit colleges have come to light, some have sought to restore their reputations and dodge possible loss of federal student aid by converting to a nonprofit control structure. In March, the Education Management Corporation (EDMC), the struggling for-profit owner of several colleges—including several Art institute campuses—announced plans to sell most of its colleges to the Dream Center Foundation, a Los Angeles nonprofit organization with no experience running colleges. In the letter below, thirty organizations representing students, consumers, veterans, and servicemembers raise questions about whether allowing continued taxpayer funding of the colleges under the new owner is in the public interest, given some of the unusual details of the sale."

https://tcf.org/content/commentary/joint-letter-questions-new-ownership-predatory-colleges/

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....again.... actual "good people " would never worked for EDMC. Period!!!

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Post ID: @3phy+N8diF2B

Mostly untrue:

That purpose is to decrease enrollment by creating multitudes of red tape for the students and it has worked. In the last year alone enrollment has decreased by nearly 40%. If anything the non-profit status should allow the actual good people here to make impacts with students that otherwise wouldn't be possible.

The red tape was so students would not go 'into the red' with no ways of getting out.

The reduced enrollment has to do to the increased action by state public universities, WGU, The University of the People, the New University from Purdue, the Nano-degrees, MOOCs, etc

Competition has finally caught up with f0r-profits and they have been slow to change.

It will get worse.

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Post ID: @2hqm+N8diF2B

Good people? You mean good at keeping their mouth shut? Good at rationalization and justification? Good at not knowing what they're not supposed to know? Good a ignoring the obvious?

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Post ID: @2bmo+N8diF2B

...actual good people? Okay 👌🏿

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Post ID: @1lij+N8diF2B

Anything that can drive a stake into the heart of darkneds is a good thing.

Give up on the BS please.

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Post ID: @1nug+N8diF2B

This article reads in a way that shows the 30 groups have no idea what they're talking about. Nearly all of their provisions are already in place and functioning as intended. That purpose is to decrease enrollment by creating multitudes of red tape for the students and it has worked. In the last year alone enrollment has decreased by nearly 40%. If anything the non-profit status should allow the actual good people here to make impacts with students that otherwise wouldn't be possible.

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Post ID: @1fcv+N8diF2B

After what happened with the fraud take over of Corinthian Colleges by a student loan repo company the DOE should let these fake schools die on their own.

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Post ID: @1rmz+N8diF2B

Come on guys... let's keep the fraud going. We can lick this!!!

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