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California files suit against for-profit collegeby al Jazeera
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/11/california-attorneygeneralfilessuitagainstforprofitcollege.html
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The state alleged that top officials at the institutions, which offer degrees for a variety of positions including medical technicians and dental assistants, were aware of the misconduct involving the job placement figures, which were used as a selling point to prospective students.
Emails cited in the lawsuit indicate that Everest College paid a temporary employment agency, Remedy Temp, to hire graduates for two days in order to increase job placement figures.
The complaint said that in addition to employing "fraudulent practices," the schools charged high tuition while targeting single-parent families who had incomes near the poverty level.
Among the expenses cited in the lawsuit were those for Heald College in San Francisco, which charged $39,510 in tuition and fees, in addition to $3,500 for books and supplies, for an associate of applied science degree in medical assisting.
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murielm99
(30,777 posts)for that amount of money.
It is about time someone sued these vultures. They always prey on the least informed and the poorest.
I try to encourage people around here to attend community colleges that are nearby instead of for profit colleges. The community colleges have similar training programs, and attendees get a real education there, too.
JI7
(89,279 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)as a Jobs Placement Coordinator. The story is RIGHT ON. If they got a job for one day, I was told to count them as employed. A lot of these young people were from rural areas. The salespeople would go out to the high schools on Career Day and do their recruiting. They didn't understand that the market was FLOODED with medical and dental assistants and the chances of getting a job in their field was almost nil. Meanwhile, by the time they graduated their student loans were $20,000 to $30,000 (in the 1990's). Most times their families were not wealthy by any means and, as they couldn't find a job in their field, were oftentimes forced to work fast food or some other minimum-wage job. They could have done that without the $20 to $30 Grand.
One more thing: I was asked to doctor grades and when I refused, they put me on Probation which was used to intimidate the employees there. Luckily, I found a new job shortly after that and was able to leave. The sad thing is, there were teachers there with very little options job-wise and they were forced to do things they didn't want to do. Needless to say, morale was REALLY low.