As more colleges grapple with higher ed bubble, they falsify data to stay on top: op-ed

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 As more colleges grapple with higher ed bubble, they falsify data to stay on top: op-ed
September 28, 2018
 

An op-ed in Forbes portends a disturbing future for colleges who may fall prey to similar scandals that engulfed Theranos, the technology company run by Elizabeth Holmes that was forced to shut down after it was discovered the company was faking its results.

Ryan Craig writes about the book “Bad Blood” by John Carreyou, a Wall Street Journal reporter who “broke the story that Silicon Valley’s biggest health sciences unicorn was peddling dreams, smoke, mirrors – pretty much everything other than a product that actually worked.”

Craig compares Theranos’s fraud to several schools in the United States under pressure due to decreasing revenues:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/as-more-colleges-grapple-with-higher-ed-bubble-they-falsify-data-to-stay-on-top-op-ed/