News stories about student loan debt have suddenly become as numerous as stories on the U.S. economic recovery. For some really scary statistics, check out a recent College Board study on for-profit colleges.
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 04.18.2012
The rapid growth of for-profit colleges over the past decade has been aided by billion-dollar ad campaigns on daytime television, the Internet and hig...
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 03.15.2012
Another former recruiting manager has come forward with allegations that a prominent for-profit college chain routinely misled students about tuition ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 01.20.2012
Four years ago, during the last presidential election, James "Bill" Heavener, CEO and co-chairman of the for-profit Full Sail University, served as a ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 12.12.2011
Cass Sunstein, President Obama's top regulatory czar, said a parade of for-profit college lobbyists and executives who marched through his office last...
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 01.02.2012
The chief executive of one of the nation's largest chains of for-profit colleges resigned earlier this week, following an internal investigation that ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 12.14.2011
Education Management Corp. was already a swiftly growing player in the lucrative world of for-profit higher education, with annual revenues topping $1...
Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.25.2011
Students trying to improve their job prospects shouldn't be duped into taking on crushing debt in exchange for the promise of a future job that will probably never materialize. A
Posted 05.25.2011
After graduating from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Carrianne Howard hoped to find a job in the video game industry. She did -- kind of. Fo...
Ellen Schloemer | Posted 05.25.2012