NYT Editorial: Who Profits? Who Learns?

28JULY2010

Enrollment at for-profit colleges and trade schools has tripled in the last decade to about 1.8 million, or nearly 10 percent of the nation’s higher education students. These schools, partly because they serve poorer students who need more support, receive almost a quarter of the federal aid. This year, federal financing for financial aid is expected to total $145 billion.

Some for-profits provide an important service for students who don’t qualify academically for traditional colleges. Too many have been cited for enrolling students who have no chance of graduating and tossing them out once that flow of aid is exhausted.

The Obama administration is right to ...




Editorial - Who Profits? Who Learns? - NYTimes.com

Britain's First Private 'University College' Is Awarded Degree-Granting Powers

July 26, 2010, 12:10 PM ET

Britain's First Private 'University College' Is Awarded Degree-Granting Powers
As a sign of the growth of for-profit higher-education providers in Britain, on Monday the first private institution in the country was awarded the title of "university college," with the announcement that
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Britain's First Private 'University College' Is Awarded Degree-Granting Powers - The Global Ticker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

For Profit Colleges: Does the Title Say It All?

July 25, 2010

Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges?

Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle
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Michael Clifford believes that education is the only path to world peace. He never went to college, but sometimes he calls himself "Doctor." Jerry Falwell is one of his heroes. Clifford has made millions of dollars from government programs but doesn't seem to see the windfall that way. Improbably, he has come to symbolize the contradictions at the heart of the growing national debate over for-profit higher education.

Until recently,...


Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges? - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Food ads directed to children

From July 24, 2010 New York Times:

Ad Rules Stall, Keeping Cereal a Cartoon Staple
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
Published: July 23, 2010



U.S. Stalls in Its Push to Limit Food Ads Aimed at Children - NYTimes.com

Built by engineers for engineers: Microsoft

Microsoft's monopolistic practices does it no good when it must actually compete. Its organizational flabbiness and tone deaf approach to customers is in full force with consumer electronics:

A Youthful Market Spurns the Wares of Microsoft - NYTimes.com