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Consumer and Minority Groups Urge Tough Rule on For-Profit Colleges

Inside Higher Ed

January 27, 2011

A broad coalition of student, consumer and minority groups on Wednesday exhorted President Obama to ensure that his administration issues a "strong and enforceable" rule aimed at ensuring that vocational programs prepare their students for "gainful employment." The letter from 38 groups cites a series of practices in which "some" career education programs have deceptively recruited students, inflated and falsely reported job placement statistics, and buried students in debt, and urges the administration not to back away from its tough but "common sense" regulation.

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