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Senate Hearing on For-Profits to Feature Video of Government Undercover Investigation

Chronicle of Higher Education

July 30, 2010

A Senate hearing on Wednesday will feature video of college recruiters and admissions officers talking to the investigators, who were posing as students, Democratic aides have said. The aides would not say what the investigation, conducted by the Government Accountability Office, had found, only that it included a "nationally representative" sample of for-profit colleges, and that it found "very similar practices" at both publicly traded and private for-profit colleges, and at large and small institutions.

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