I really can't stress enough how these for-profit institutions seek to avoid any kind of responsibility otherwise assumed of an institution of higher learning. They consistently take advantage of veterans. Close to home, these companies actively and willfully take advantage of veterans benefits to reap in billions [0]. These schools actively recruit soldiers at military bases, who end up using up a good portion (or all) of their benefit without being able to get a job or before they can transfer it to their children or spouse. They're left with no education benefit, a degree that isn't transferable and, perhaps worst of all, a feeling of failure and embarrassment. PBS did an excellent show on the situation not long ago [1]. The standard argument I hear in favor of these schools is that the situation in the military is different, and a lot of veterans leaving the force already have families so going to a traditional college or university would be difficult or unmanageable. This is true, but distance learning has to become better.
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I really can't stress enough how these for-profit institutions seek to avoid any kind of responsibility otherwise assumed of an institution of higher learning. They consistently take advantage of veterans. Close to home, these companies actively and willfully take advantage of veterans benefits to reap in billions [0]. These schools actively recruit soldiers at military bases, who end up using up a good portion (or all) of their benefit without being able to get a job or before they can transfer it to their children or spouse. They're left with no education benefit, a degree that isn't transferable and, perhaps worst of all, a feeling of failure and embarrassment. PBS did an excellent show on the situation not long ago [1]. The standard argument I hear in favor of these schools is that the situation in the military is different, and a lot of veterans leaving the force already have families so going to a traditional college or university would be difficult or unmanageable. This is true, but distance learning has to become better.
[0] http://fortune.com/2014/11/11/gi-bill-for-profit-colleges/ [1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/gi-bill-benefitting-profit-co...