Sentences with phrase «profit college in»

Successfully defended a for - profit college in arbitration in connection with state and federal investigations of allegedly false representations and fraudulent recruiting practices.

At Bay State, a for - profit college in Boston, it's less than 15 percent.

Tina Carr and Yvette Colon from the Sanford - Brown Institute, a for - profit college in New York, claimed they were defrauded by their education institution.

It ran as a private, non-profit, Christian university for 55 years, but transitioned to a for - profit college in 2004 to get additional investor funding.

Recently, Corinthian Colleges — one of the biggest for - profit colleges in the United States — sold some of its locations to Zenith Education (many of which will be closing shortly), filed for bankruptcy.

The bill to include for - profit colleges in the tuition plan is sponsored by two Bronx lawmakers, Democratic Assemblyman Victor Pichardo and Sen. Jeffrey Klein, who leads the Independent Democratic Conference.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D - Iowa, presents a Senate report on for - profit colleges in 2012.

Citing a federal lawsuit brought on in May by an association of for - profit colleges in California, Secretary DeVos has since changed those plans.

A new report by The Century Foundation's Yan Cao examines how on three measures of higher education quality — graduate employment outcomes, student financial distress, and institutional investment in education — for - profit colleges in New York are under - performing when compared to the state's public and nonprofit schools.

This is a step forward in combating for - profit colleges in their attempt to increase enrollment through misdirection.

Not exact matches

The first annual Unofficial Student Guide to Hobart College turned a 50 % profit on $ 3,000 in revenues.

In recent months, they have worked to undo regulations barring the fine print from contracts for nursing - homes and for - profit colleges.

«Despite the much higher costs of attendance, earnings effects are smaller in the for - profit sector relative to the effects for comparable students in public community colleges — a result that holds for all but one of the top 10 fields of study,» according to the study abstract.

Tuition and fees at for - profit colleges averaged over $ 15,000 for the 2013 - 2014 school year versus about $ 8,900 for in - state tuition at a four - year public college, according to the Collegecollege, according to the CollegeCollege Board.

In each video lecture, our experts — top - rated college professors, successful entrepreneurs and business executives — offer their experiences and advice so that you can maximize the profit - making potential of your existing operation or budding business proposition.

Many people like to have investments in stocks so that they can be sold at a future date for a profit, to tide over certain expenses like college fees for children or having a secure retirement.

In addition, Mr. Turnbull has held a number of board positions with public sector and not - for - profit organizations, including, Metrolinx, the Ontario Financing Authority, George Brown College Foundation, the Toronto Financial Services Alliance and ORBIS Canada.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

And there may be more demand than ever for the types of technical degrees and certification programs that for - profit colleges excel in offering.

One important difference was that non-profit universities and colleges faired much better than for - profit in work engagement and well - being.

NOTRE DAME AND TV From all the anguished cries we're hearing about Notre Dame's TV contract with NBC (We're Notre Dame — and You're Not, Feb. 19), one would think a corporate raider had just taken over college football and was tucking away the profits in a Swiss bank account.

In addition to the most popular sports, the NFL and college football — the sports with more frequent profit opportunities (the NBA & NHL) are getting underway.

Again, remain skeptical of anything to do with «profit» in college football.

The Australian College of Midwives (ACM) is a national, not - for - profit organisation that serves as the peak professional body for midwives in Australia.

Two state lawmakers on Friday pushed Gov. Andrew Cuomo to expand the Enhanced Tuition Award to students who attend proprietary, or for - profit, colleges in the state.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman joined a coalition of nine attorneys general in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit by for - profit colleges regarding student loan debt regulations.

They argue the bill, passed in the waning days of this year's legislative session and now on Cuomo's desk, doesn't weed out the significant number of for - profit colleges that are on a federal watch list of institutions whose graduates are struggling to pay back their loans.

Schneiderman's email points to oversight of for - profit colleges — once given up for dead, but are making a comeback under the new Republican administration in Washington — as well as efforts to review practices in student debt collection.

A cannabis plant grows in the Amsterdam Cannabis College, a non profit charitable organisation that gives information on cannabis and hemp use.

As a result of the rules, many schools have opted to cut lesser men's sports (like volleyball, lacrosse, etc) in favor of major sports like American football, which is a profit center for most colleges that participate in Division 1 (where the events are often televised and the schools get a cut).

As we will prove in court, Donald Trump and his sham for - profit college defrauded thousands of students out of millions of dollars.»

«Students pay thousands of dollars to for - profit colleges because they rightly believe education is the ticket to success in their careers.

In addition, following enactment in the final budget of legislation that makes for - profit colleges eligible for the state's Enhanced Tuition Awards and STEM Scholarship programs regardless of their record on student loan debt and employment outcomes, stronger quality controls and student protections are essential.&raquIn addition, following enactment in the final budget of legislation that makes for - profit colleges eligible for the state's Enhanced Tuition Awards and STEM Scholarship programs regardless of their record on student loan debt and employment outcomes, stronger quality controls and student protections are essential.&raquin the final budget of legislation that makes for - profit colleges eligible for the state's Enhanced Tuition Awards and STEM Scholarship programs regardless of their record on student loan debt and employment outcomes, stronger quality controls and student protections are essential.»

A for - profit college company called Laureate International Universities signed Bill Clinton to a lucrative deal in 2009 as a consultant and «honorary chancellor,» paying him $ 17.6 million over five years until the contract ended in 2015 as Hillary Clinton launched her campaign for president.

He now represents a half - dozen interest groups, including Alliant Energy, which spent $ 194,000 on lobbying in the 2011 - 12 legislative session; School Choice Wisconsin, which supports public spending on private schools and has another former Assembly speaker, John Gard, on its lobby payroll; and the Wisconsin Council for Independent Education, which represents for - profit colleges.

Widespread support for the project is evident, not only by viewing the list of endorsements the project has received — which range from local officials to chambers of college, tourism officials, area colleges and not - for - profit organizations — but also by the proliferation of signs placed in the yards of residents throughout southern Ulster County welcoming the Nevele back to the community.

The discussion, which comes at the 13:00 minute mark in the interview (we're embedding it here) centered on federal regulation of for - profit colleges.

Though Stavisky is not free from her own controversy, as the Observer found the incumbent and ranking member of the Committee on Higher Education to have taken tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from for - profit colleges, including one that's been involved in a bribery scandal that implicated an Assembly member from Queens in 2009.

He was accused of directing a charity, Pathways for Youth, Inc. in the Bronx to send money to two not - for - profit organizations, which in turn paid his expenses, including fees to a vacation club in the Dominican Republic and his daughter's college tuition.

The not - for - profit WestLink Innovation Network Ltd. was established in 2000 in an attempt to accelerate the commercialization of scientific inventions at 25 western Canadian universities, colleges, and research institutes.

At one time, the country had only one for - profit medical school: the Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic (D.O. - granting) Medicine in Colorado, which opened in 2007.

In a study, researchers said a computer program that analyzed the estimates of an agribusiness expert helped a business division at Dow AgroSciences improve the accuracy of its forecasts, leading to an increase in profits of 2 to 3 percent and a decrease in costs of 6 to 7 percent, said Saurabh Bansal, assistant professor of supply chain management in Penn State's Smeal College of BusinesIn a study, researchers said a computer program that analyzed the estimates of an agribusiness expert helped a business division at Dow AgroSciences improve the accuracy of its forecasts, leading to an increase in profits of 2 to 3 percent and a decrease in costs of 6 to 7 percent, said Saurabh Bansal, assistant professor of supply chain management in Penn State's Smeal College of Businesin profits of 2 to 3 percent and a decrease in costs of 6 to 7 percent, said Saurabh Bansal, assistant professor of supply chain management in Penn State's Smeal College of Businesin costs of 6 to 7 percent, said Saurabh Bansal, assistant professor of supply chain management in Penn State's Smeal College of Businesin Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

In the past decade, enrollment and graduation numbers have risen in for - profit colleges; however, little is known about how employers perceive potential employees with for - profit college degrees on their resumeIn the past decade, enrollment and graduation numbers have risen in for - profit colleges; however, little is known about how employers perceive potential employees with for - profit college degrees on their resumein for - profit colleges; however, little is known about how employers perceive potential employees with for - profit college degrees on their resumes.

For their study, Koedel, Rajeev Darolia, an assistant professor in the MU Truman School of Public Affairs, and their coauthors, randomly generated thousands of resumes that included either a for - profit college credential, a two - year community college credential or only a high school diploma.

A pair of horny American college students on a backpacking trip across Europe stumble into a hellish nightmare of murder for profit in this horror smash from director Eli Roth («Cabin Fever»), starring Jay Hernandez and Derek Richardson, with Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova, Jan Vlasak, Jana Kaderabkova and Jennifer Lim.

The growth in for - profit colleges is the result of a choice we've made about how to fund higher education in this country.

Whether you are working in a school, a museum, a no - profit organization, a college or university, a philanthropy, government, or in an organization you start - you will find frustration.

Particular questions have arisen in the fast - growing for - profit college sector.

In their analysis of three - year cohort default rates, Looney and Yannelis (2015) highlight the rapid increases in defaults among borrowers in the for - profit sector, and to a lesser extent among community college borrowerIn their analysis of three - year cohort default rates, Looney and Yannelis (2015) highlight the rapid increases in defaults among borrowers in the for - profit sector, and to a lesser extent among community college borrowerin defaults among borrowers in the for - profit sector, and to a lesser extent among community college borrowerin the for - profit sector, and to a lesser extent among community college borrowers.

[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not high levels of debt per student (in fact, defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically indicates higher levels of college attainment), but rather the low earnings of dropout and for - profit students, who have high rates of default even on relatively small debts.