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For-Profit Colleges Spending Millions Lobbying

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 08.30.2012 | College
Read More: Video, For-Profits, For-Profit Colleges Lobbying, Shadow Conventions 2012, Lobbying, Shadow Conventions, Majoring in Debt, For-Profit Colleges Regulations, Money in Politics, Slideexpand, For-Profit Colleges, College News

For-profit colleges have spent a combined $39.6 million on lobbying efforts since 2007, according to an analysis by The Huffington Post using data fro...

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In California the Battle To Save Higher Education Continues

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.12.2011 | College
Read More: For-Profits, California State University, Governor Jerry Brown, Budget Cuts, Public Higher Education, Univeristy of Phoenix, Budget Crisis, California Democrats, Democrats, California Politics, State Senator Ted Gaines, Wall Street, GOP 5, Kaplan, California Faculty Association, Republicans, California Political News, College News
Joseph A. Palermo

The budget constraints have led the CSU administration to put into overdrive its business model for higher education, to treat education like a "business," like a "product" that is "delivered" to a "customer."

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Nonprofits Seeking Boost Personalize Appeals, Pair With For-Profits

Posted 06.06.2011 | Impact
Read More: Nonprofits, Philanthropy, For-Profits, Charity, Strategic Philanthropy, RST Marketing, Postcardmania, Video, Impact News

Nonprofits competing for funds are now teaming up with for-profit businesses to help curb what is predicted to be another tough year for charitable gi...

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Education news: Recess round-up has drama, politics and finance all in one

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Teacher Governance, Education, Teachers, Edujobs, G.I. Bill, For-Profits, Iowa, Inacol, The Hechinger Report, Senator Tom Harkin, Smarter Ideas, For-Profit Colleges, Politics News
Susan Sawyers

A round-up of this week's education stories brought to you by The Hechinger Report. The word from Washington centered on the passage of an emerge...

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University of Phoenix: Always Be Closing

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: The Apollo Group, For-Profits, For-Proft Colleges, University of Phoenix, Gao, Federal Student Aid, Higher Education, Student Loans, Senator Tom Harkin, George Kutz, Government Accountability Office, Arne Duncan, Education Department, Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet, USC Professor William Tierney, Sacramento Bee, For-Profit Colleges, College News
Joseph A. Palermo

The only "student learning outcomes" these for-profit corporations posing as colleges recognize are those that fill their own pockets with tax dollars that are supposed to be going to deserving students who just want an education.

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