Students Say Baker College Set Them Up to Fail. Now the Feds Are Investigating.

Cleamon Moorer, a former administrator and faculty member at Baker College, left after three years because the college did not seem to put robust effort into educating underserved students. The U.S. Department of Education has begun an investigation into a Michigan private college that aggressively markets its programs to students but only graduates 22 percent of them. The investigation was disclosed in a notice last week from Baker College’s accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, which assigned the college its governmental investigation status “based on information indicating that the U.S. Department of Education, through the Office of Federal Student Aid, has initiated a formal investigation of the institution related to its recruitment and marketing practices.”