The state Office of Higher Education is hiring its first consumer protection advocate to monitor college recruitment and advertising practices. The new hire will work with George Roedler, who heads up the registration and licensing section and mediates complaints that students have with schools. Commissioner Larry Pogemiller says the advocate will identify misleading practices and Read more →
I have Herzing’s reaction below: This announcement just in from the Minnesota Attorney General’s office: MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL AND HERZING UNIVERSITY REACH SETTLEMENT OVER LACK OF ACCREDITATION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANT ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM Attorney General Lori Swanson and Herzing University, a for-profit college based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, entered into a settlement today arising out Read more →
Looks like Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is looking into the activities of Corinthian Colleges, a publicly owned, for-profit education chain based in Santa Ana, Calif. From Corinthian’s most recent 10-K report: On July 8, 2013, the Company received a civil investigative demand from the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office (the “MN AG”) seeking information on Read more →
About a year ago, I looked into allegations that Globe University / Minnesota School of Business was using deceptive marketing tactics to lure prospective students. That was also around the time that Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa had concluded an investigation of for-profit schools throughout the country. The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Read more →
Here are a couple of key questions springing from last week’s verdict in the Globe University / Minnesota School of Business whistleblower case involving former dean Heidi Weber. I’ve touched on the answers in my main story and chat with Tom Crann of MPR’s All Things Considered, but thought I’d combine them here. Q: What Read more →
As part of my look last summer into recruiting practices at Globe University – Minnesota School of Business, I assessed how state officials viewed the regulation of for-profit colleges in Minnesota. At the time, it appeared that only state Attorney General Lori Swanson and private litigators were prepared to carry out an aggressive watchdog role. Read more →
The state Office of Higher Education just sent this out a few minutes ago. It’s the results of the research I first mentioned last year in this news piece. I’ll post their announcement and then try to swing around and look at the report more deeply on Monday. The second paragraph seems interesting. OFFICE Read more →
I’ve been meaning for ages to get to this. A lot has been said about how many degrees and certificates workers will need in the coming years — much of it based on findings by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. But Mark Misukanis, former director of finance and research for the state Read more →
I’ve chatted with Tom Crann on All Things Considered about Sen. Tom Harkin’s investigation into for-profit colleges and the three Minnesota schools that were in the report. Above is the first volume of the report, where you can see in detail what what’s said about each college. The Web page with links to all the Read more →
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