For-Profit Colleges and the Military

In this NY Times article, Holly Petraeus, the head of servicemember affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, explains how for-profit colleges prey on members of the military and their families. She begins the article this way:

Military personnel and their families are finding themselves under siege from for-profit colleges. A number of these schools focus on members of the armed forces with aggressive and often misleading marketing, and then provide little academic, administrative or counseling support once the students are enrolled.

Take a look at this Frontline piece on the same phenomenon.

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[Dean Farris]

At a minimum, the military services should give people awaiting discharge a glossy brochure that states (more than once) that a degree or associate degree from a state college is worth more than a degree from most private colleges. The brochure should then rank schools numerically without regard to state or private. The private schools that are after GI money will scream. So what. Trade schools should also be ranked. A class by an officer or a sargent major with a appreciation of education would also help.