Alex Friedrich
This year didn’t spare any sector of Minnesota higher education from headlines.
Campuses in the public, for-profit and nonprofit sectors struggled with crime, labor dissatisfaction, legal troubles or complaints over race relations. Read more →
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Globe University / Minnesota School of Business has entered the radar of Kyle McCarthy, cofounder of StudentDebtCrisis.org. In an article in The Huffington Post, he writes that the Globe Education Network offers its students a high-interest — 18 percent — private Educational Opportunities Loan (EdOp Loan). He says Globe is quite aggressive in how it Read more →
Looks like Minneapolis attorneys Clayton Halunen and Scott Carlson are scouring records in Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota in their lawsuit against Globe University. Read more →
I’ve written about four inquiries into business practices at Globe University / Minnesota School of Business, and some readers are probably noticing overlap in the people involved — especially those who accuse the schools of unethical practices. Some names have appeared in multiple articles or lawsuits. In the interest of clarity and transparency, I’d like Read more →
Here are three documents — Exhibits A, B and C — that accompanied yesterday’s consumer-fraud lawsuit against Globe University / Minnesota School of Business. The first two provide some financial context for the suit, which claims that Globe/MSB targeted students who were eligible for a lot of financial aid. Such aid, the suit says, is Read more →
A Minneapolis attorney has filed a consumer fraud lawsuit on behalf of five former and current students who say they were misled by Globe University / Minnesota School of Business. Clayton Halunen asked the Hennepin County District Court to grant the suit class-action status. The suit seeks to cover students enrolled since September 2007. In 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 →