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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: Wingnut on December 07, 2018, 03:33:56 am

Title: Students stunned after major for-profit college chain closes: 'They're taking our dreams away'
Post by: Wingnut on December 07, 2018, 03:33:56 am

It is a start.  More of these scam colleges should be shuttered.

By Daniella Silva

Jasmin Cantú, a student at Brightwood College in Texas, said she was in the middle of taking a medical assistant certification exam Wednesday when a school official came into the classroom in tears, delivering a message Cantú never thought she would hear.

The school was shutting down and the last day of classes would be Friday, she said.

“It was a shock to all of us. Everybody was in tears,” she said. “Everybody had no words to even describe what it feels like to just be told your campus is closing and there’s nothing they can do about it.”//

For ECA students who took out thousands of dollars in loans, including Cantú, 19, the school closures leave them with a major dilemma.

Students can ask the Education Department to cancel loans when a school closes or attempt to continue their education at another school that may not accept their credits, said Antoinette Flores, an associate director of Postsecondary Education Policy at the Center for American Progress. On average, students at for-profit schools were “significantly” more likely to lose their credits, she said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/students-stunned-after-major-profit-college-chain-closes-they-re-n944976 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/students-stunned-after-major-profit-college-chain-closes-they-re-n944976)


The world needs ditch diggers.