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Beyond the 2010 NAICU Annual Meeting
The NAICU Annual Meeting may be over, but you can still benefit from many of the sessions and speakers. We've assembled speech texts and PowerPoints for many of the sessions, available on our 2010 Annual Meeting Presentations page.

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For-Profit Colleges Target the Military
December 30, 2009
Since 1947 the Defense Dept. has subsidized college tuition for active-duty service members. State universities, community colleges, and private nonprofit colleges have traditionally dominated the market. Now for-profit colleges specializing in online degrees are making substantial inroads. The shift is leading to educational shortcuts and overzealous marketing, says Greg von Lehmen, chief academic officer of the University of Maryland University College.
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