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new york fears its burgeoning for profit
"higher ED" sector


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i say 

 give us more pecksniffs 

please 

they're just the ticket
to fleece  our 
 self development oriented
 unlettered underdegreed immo-grantes 

   so taxpayers kick in some
and the used up  end
of uncle's  endless credit line
   gets a little larger...
  
      ain't it 
 better then subsidizing 
                   poker nites  

  besides whats the mortal  sin here

 so what
   if the staff of higher enlightenment 
has a little more saw dust 
   and a little less flour in it   .....

for a flat no frills 9k per year 
                all on the gub course load  ????


and forget the hayekian chatter

forget

can't ....the free market clean this up...
                       in the long run  

who has a better way to boost effective demand
and 
the fucks iz off the streets eh???   

i don't care if its charm school
   or tai chung chop class 

   okay so  a scholarship
to 26 weeknites
at the local whores might be  more fun ...

but shit

who promised u all
   a rose garden 

certainly not 
 jimmy carter 

at any rate here's the story:


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"The New York State Board of Regents
 has imposed a moratorium
 on new commercial colleges 
 in the face of explosive growth
 in their enrollments 
and increasing reports of problems"
 

  
  
" The freeze comes 
as state education officials,
 the governor
 and lawmakers 
are examining ways 
to tighten regulations
 or financing of this fast-growing sector
 of higher education, 
which is consuming more than
 $100 million in state aid."

"This week,
 Gov. George E. Pataki proposed 
that the state withhold financial aid
 from college students 
who had not graduated from high school"



 
proposed force laws :
  
"commercial schools to seek certification
 from outside  accrediting bodies"

  



---------too much public cash on the table ???------------

" there are people in the marketplace 
who  try and take advantage of the system 
for their own economic benefit," 





there is fraud and abuse
 in all sectors of higher education." 
"If states are looking at 
proprietary schools and colleges
 they should also be looking 
at all institutions."




"This is a cottage industry
 that needs to be better regulated
, and more attention must be paid to it,"  

New York is not alone in trying to clamp down. 


"Commercial schools, which often advertise heavily,
 promising quick career training
 to poorly educated students,
are booming around the country"




" Decker College in Kentucky, 
where William F. Weld, a candidate for governor in New York,
 was chief executive, 
went bankrupt in the fall 
after federal agents raided the campus
 and the federal government
 cut off its student aid."


. 

"The State Education Department
 recently ordered the Interboro Institute,
 based in New York City,
 to halve the number of new students 
it enrolls in the coming year"

". The department acted 
after finding that the commercial college
, one of the fastest-growing in the state,
 was cheating in certifying student eligibility
 for aid and was not providing 
enough academic support for its students"

"The department is also trying to close
 Taylor Business Institute, also in New York City,
 saying it has made 
"unsatisfactory movement" 
to improve academic quality" 
 

, 

"the New York State comptroller's office
 released an audit 
showing that nearly a fifth 
of the students it had scrutinized 
at the ASA Institute of Business and Computer Technology 
in New York City 
were accepted 
solely on the basis of their own notarized statements 
that they had graduated from high schools
 in other countries 
but had difficulties getting their records.
 The auditors found that some of the students 
who claimed to be high school graduates were not"

"There are 41 commercial degree-granting colleges
 in New York 
 and about 400 commercial career schools 
that do not grant degrees."

" Many charge tuition of about $9,000,
 the amount that can be covered
 by federal and state financial aid grants"

"The flow of public money 
to such schools is one reason
 they are drawing scrutiny"

" A recurring question 
is whether some schools are enrolling students
 who have little hope of graduating
 simply to capture the financial aid"

" In New York, 
their students drew $136 million
 in state tuition assistance grants
 in 2003-4 
 17 percent of the those grants 
 even though they accounted 
for about 7 percent 
     of the undergraduates"

  ahh what a spectacle 

merit beavers chasing profit skunks 

i love the commercial stigmata 

as if commerce plays no role at a non profit high ed place

commercial oughta just mean charging tuitiion

and we oughta use the label word 
 capitalist  higher ed 
for outfits  
with a pristine 
      for profit motivation