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Showing posts with label Apollo Education Group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apollo Education Group. Show all posts
Sunday, August 21, 2016

"Looters Will Be Shot"--Except for hedge fund managers, shoddy manufacturers, and owners of for-profit colleges

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I passed by a low spot on Highway 16 a few days after the Great South Louisiana Flood of 2016, and I saw a house that had obviously been inu...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

University of Phoenix is eliminating mandatory arbitration clauses in its student agreements. Hmmm. When a for-profit does the right thing, it's probably in trouble

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On May 19th, Apollo Education Group, which owns University of Phoenix, announced that it is eliminating mandatory arbitration clauses in it...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

University of Phoenix to be sold to private equity groups: Insiders float away on golden parachutes

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Earlier this year, Apollo Education Group, owner of University of Phoenix, announced that it was in negotiations with three private equity f...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Hillary Clinton's ties to the for-profit college industry: If she becomes President, expect the status quo

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The for-profit college industry has had a good run. For years, it has sucked up about a quarter of all federal student-loan money, while onl...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Henry Fernandez of Fox Business News says 40% of students aren't paying back their student loans. Is Fernandez correct? Does it matter?

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Henry Fernandez of Fox Business News published a story last week reporting that 40 percent of college borrowers aren't paying back thei...
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Thursday, April 7, 2016

4.6 million student debtors are in long-term repayment plans, default rates are up, and President Obama's "best friend" is buying University of Phoenix: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold The Second Coming William Butler Yeats As William Butler Yeats put it, "Things f...
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