Education

Crackdown on California for Profit Colleges

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Poorly performing schools will be disqualified from key financial aid programs as Jerry Brown imposes stricter eligibility standards on schools participating in the Cal Grant programs.  This move to size up the budget eliminates some of the biggest players in the for-profit college industry, to include the University of Phoenix.  Last year, the University of Phoenix derived 86 percent of its revenue from federal student aid.  If that figure rises above 90 percent, University of Phoenix will loose state-funded Cal Grants, and the school would no longer be eligible for federal student aid.

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1 comments on "Crackdown on California for Profit Colleges"

dwdallam

July 08, 2012 3:43pm

Good. UoP is a huge joke among CEOs and other educated people. I had a fried who taught at the UoP for a year--couldn't find a job anywhere else. He quit because he said the rigor was so low it was on the 8th grade level. Anyway, he was told that he didn't even need to give tests. His job was to keep students enrolled. Fuck the charlatans who found these schools for profit less education and who prey on the "instant gratification" mentality.