Frontline: college, inc.
There seems to be a fundamental problem with the idea of an institution whose supposed intention is to open up higher education to those who would not otherwise be able to have access to it but then charging them more than traditional non-profit universities so that lower-income students attending for-profit colleges will eventually be saddled with even more debt (tens of thousands of dollars of greater debt) than students attending public state universities and liberal arts colleges. Here's Stephen Colbert's note on the same issue:
Colbert University
The Colbert clip includes a quick interview with Andrew Hacker, one of the authors of the recent book Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do about It. I strongly recommend this book: it's a quick read, it convincingly presents in clear terms a lot of major issues contributing to the diminishing quality of higher education in a lot of universities today, and it offers some potential solutions.
For the other side of the for-profit university debate, see this interview with a CEO of one of the online for-profit schools: "Online Learning and the World of For-Profit Education."
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