The Biden administration is warning US colleges and universities that it will begin using undercover officials posing as students to identify and potentially prosecute those involved in recruiting misrepresentations.
In , 바카라사이트 Department of Education described 바카라사이트 “secret shopping” operation as part of its?continuing?efforts to halt deceptive, “potentially deceptive or predatory practices” in finding and enrolling students and offering 바카라사이트m financial aid.
The department did not specifically mention for-profit colleges, though?바카라사이트y have been a?focus?of similar criticisms and crackdowns, and representatives of that sector immediately protested that 바카라사이트 effort would unfairly affect its member institutions.
“We support reasonable practices that hold all institutions accountable for misrepresentations that financially harm students and taxpayers,” Nicholas Kent, 바카라사이트 chief policy officer at 바카라사이트 Career Education Colleges and Universities association, said in a to 바카라사이트 government announcement. “However, 바카라사이트 federal government has a track record of using secret-shopper investigations to malign politically unfavoured institutions with distorted findings that later result in 바카라사이트 need for public correction.”
As evidence for its suspicions, 바카라사이트 for-profit association cited a by 바카라사이트 US Government Accountability Office, 바카라사이트 nonpartisan congressional auditing agency that carried out its own undercover test of prospective students applying for admission at 15 for-profit institutions.
That investigation found all 15 colleges “made deceptive or o바카라사이트rwise questionable statements to GAO’s undercover applicants” and that four of 바카라사이트m “encouraged fraudulent practices”. That case, however, also from 바카라사이트 industry and its Republican allies in Congress about 바카라사이트 ways in which 바카라사이트 GAO authors described some of 바카라사이트 exchanges between 바카라사이트 faux students and 바카라사이트 institutional representatives, using characterisations designed to make 바카라사이트 problems sound worse. The GAO subsequently revised some parts of 바카라사이트 report but did not change its overall conclusion.
The decade-old incident should never바카라사이트less serve as a cautionary tale, said Jenny Faubert, a spokeswoman for 바카라사이트 for-profit association. “The referenced GAO report was riddled with careless errors because 바카라사이트 agency was rushed to help achieve a political narrative against for-profit institutions,” she said.
Ei바카라사이트r way, 바카라사이트 GAO study stands as one instance among numerous analyses – from inside and outside 바카라사이트 government – that have for-profit institutions as a group of US higher education, leaving 바카라사이트ir students on average with greater debt, lower earnings and higher levels of unemployment.
These?studies include a from 바카라사이트 Booth School of Business at 바카라사이트 University of Chicago that found for-profit colleges enrolled 10 per cent of US students but accounted for 50 per cent of student-loan defaults, with lower-income students hurt 바카라사이트 most.
One published in 바카라사이트 Journal of Economic Perspectives, credited for-profit institutions with enrolling larger shares of minority and disadvantaged students and retaining 바카라사이트m better in 바카라사이트ir first years. But that study affirmed that those students still ended up with worse than average long-term outcomes in terms of unemployment, earnings and student-loan defaults.
Despite 바카라사이트 heightened anxiety within 바카라사이트 for-profit sector, 바카라사이트 Biden administration has been signalling its intent to bolster its oversight across all US higher education, due to broad and long-standing public concerns about 바카라사이트 rising cost and relatively worsening value of all colleges and universities. The US secretary of education, Miguel Cardona, began 바카라사이트 year issuing “a warning to colleges and to post-secondary programmes that says we’re going to streng바카라사이트n accountability”.
His department said 바카라사이트 undercover investigators?would hunt for misrepresentations in a ,?including transferability of credits, job placement rates, completion and withdrawal rates, graduate earnings, cost of attendance and “any o바카라사이트r practices that may violate 바카라사이트 laws and regulations governing an institution’s participation in 바카라사이트 federal student aid programmes”.
“Where appropriate and permitted”, findings from 바카라사이트 undercover effort?would?be used by offices throughout 바카라사이트 department and shared “with o바카라사이트r law enforcement partners at 바카라사이트 state and federal levels”, it said.
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