On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > right. Obama's downside is that he talks about everyone going to > college and then doesn't draw the line to exclude the for-profit > colleges. > > when thinking about art school, my son made the mistake of visiting > the "Art Institute" in Santa Monica, CA. It's one of a big nationwide > chain. Both my wife and he felt that they had visited a used-car lot, > being asked questions "how can I get you to sign up today?" instead of > "how can I get you to buy this car?" We still receive large amounts of > junk mail from them (not to mention phone calls) even though he's > attending the Art Center College of Design, a real art college.
The for-profit "colleges" are outright scams. They are not colleges. They consume 25% of all Federal aid dollars which should be a national scandal, but I don't see David Shemano even bother to make a distinction between these and real colleges. The latter for all their faults at least provide a real education. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
