for-profit colleges

Purdue Chases the Cash

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 27, 2017

Wow. Purdue University said Thursday it has acquired for-profit Kaplan University to extend its reach into online and adult education, an unusual move for a public institution. “None of us knows how fast or in what direction online higher education will evolve, but we know...

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ITT Is No More

By Erik Loomis

On September 6, 2016

One of the Obama's administration's signature late achievements is going after for-profit colleges. Embattled for-profit college company ITT Educational Services, Inc. is officially shutting down its academic services, the company.

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Today in the Neoliberal University

By Erik Loomis

On April 13, 2016

Normally, I avoid using the word "neoliberalism" whenever possible since people use it almost as irresponsibly as they use the term "genocide" to describe something they don't like. But of.

School Testing and For-Profit Colleges: Both Declining?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 27, 2015

There's a useful slight reversal of position from President Obama and other Democratic politicians who have pushed a regimen of educational reforms, primarily constant standardized testing (or studying for those tests) that take much of the education and a whole lot of the joy of...

Nick never Nick but their exact final destination is currently unclear in addition to be horrifying and frightening, it would also be something else -- weird? grotesquely amusing? -- if these B-2s appeared in the...
B-2 or not B-2? · June 21, 2025
Unemployed_Northeastern ☑️☑️☑️ They've always had caps. Used to be more like 7,000 pounds a year. It may not have a net cost higher than US public education, but socioeconomic mobility in the UK is even more dependent on...
British Academic Leadership, with Even More Leaderocity than in the U.S. · June 21, 2025
JEC Communists and money-grubbers. I guess this is a good place to trot out the quote about absurdity being the point.
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kotodama Cue joke about #1 in a B-2.
B-2 or not B-2? · June 21, 2025
Chris arse, wanker, and bollocks supply still looking good though
British Academic Leadership, with Even More Leaderocity than in the U.S. · June 21, 2025