{"id":9045,"date":"2012-07-31T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2012-07-31T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:50:08","slug":"9045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/07\/9045\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Report Paints a Damning Portrait of For-Profit Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/A-Damning-Portrait-of\/133253\/?cid=at&#038;utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">Senate Report Paints a Damning Portrait of For-Profit Higher Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For-profit colleges can play an important role in educating nontraditional students, but the colleges often operate as aggressive recruiting machines focused on generating shareholder profits at the expense of a quality education for their students.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the unflattering portrait of the for-profit higher-education industry detailed in a voluminous report officially released on Monday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. The report, which also criticizes the accrediting agencies that evaluate the colleges, concludes a two-year investigation into the operations of 30 for-profit higher-education companies from 2006 to 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Senate Report Paints a Damning Portrait of For-Profit Higher Education For-profit colleges can play an important role in educating nontraditional students, but the colleges often operate as aggressive recruiting machines focused on generating shareholder profits at the expense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/07\/9045\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2255],"tags":[1854,2156,524068],"class_list":["post-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-university","tag-reports","tag-the-corporate-university","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}