Publicly traded colleges

• Are for-profit colleges more expensive than community colleges?

  Finally, students in for-profits are two and half times more likely than community college students to be single parents (29 percent versus 12 percent).14Despite the low-income status of most of their clientele, for-profit colleges are far more expensive than their counter- parts in the public and nonprofit sectors.

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• How do for-profit colleges advertise?

  Many for-profit colleges devote considerable resources to advertising, sales, and market- ing. GAO investigators posing as prospective students entered their personal informa- tion on websites designed to match students to colleges based on their stated interests.

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• Should for-profit colleges be regulated?

  A key challenge in regulating for-profit colleges is to restrain overly aggres- sive and potentially misleading recruitment practices while not stifling educational inno- vation and improved postsecondary learning opportunities for disadvantaged students.

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• Can a public college meet the demand for higher education?

  But budget pressures mean that com- munity colleges and other nonselective public institutions may not be able to meet the demand for higher education. Some students unable to get into desired courses and programs at public institutions may face only two alternatives: attendance at a for-profit or no postsecondary educa- tion at all.

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• [PDF File]The Evolution of the For-Profit College Industry

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  leaders have emerged. Fewer for-profit colleges are publicly traded, reducing the transparency of the operations. There has been a significant move away from campus-based programs, with a larger share of for-profit students, particularly at large for-profit schools, attending exclusively online programs. In

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• GAO-10-948T For-Profit Colleges: Undercover Testing Finds ...

  not only expected to earn and maximize pro ts, but also, in the case of publicly traded colleges, have a duciary duty to do so. Trustees at nonpro t colleges are typically just reimbursed for their expenses but the median board member at a publicly traded for-pro t college was paid over $100,000 for their service in 2009.

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• Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes

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• [PDF File]For Profi t Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the ...

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  military and veterans’ benefits, are included, the 15 publicly traded for-profit education compa-nies received 86 percent of revenues from taxpayers. • For-profit colleges also receive the largest share of military educational benefit programs: 37 percent of post-9/11 GI bill benefits and 50 percent of Department of Defense Tuition Assistance

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• [PDF File]For-Profit Colleges - Scholars at Harvard

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  This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of histor - ically advantaged groups reach top positions in the economy. I com-bine administrative data on income and leadership teams at publicly traded firms with a regression discontinuity design based on admis-sions rules at elite business-focused degree programs in Chile. The

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• [PDF File]The Law is the Law - JSTOR

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  Summary For-profit, or proprietary, colleges are the fastest-growing postsecondary schools in the nation, enrolling a disproportionately high share of disadvantaged and minority students and those ill-prepared for college.

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