- RampageDon ( @RampageDon@lemmy.ml ) 42•8 months ago
So they are getting hit with cost of business. 100k students with 78% being affected, 50k tuition that is actually 25% more than advertised.
(78,000 students)(50,000 tution)(.25) = 975million they made just from extra fees tricking those students. A 38 million fine should be on top of the 975million they pay back for conning people. Why would they stop when they make money off of this?
- BossDj ( @BossDj@lemm.ee ) 7•8 months ago
I agree and hate it all, but as far as why would they stop, they are also under new scrutiny for the future and have guidelines/oversight applied specifically to GCU to monitor and inform current and future enrollees: https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-office-federal-student-aid-fines-grand-canyon-university-377-million-deceiving-thousands-students
*I also think they should be paying extra annually for the taxpayer-funded oversight
- ares35 ( @ares35@kbin.social ) 14•8 months ago
they aren’t your run-of-the-mill church-affiliated liberal arts college or university, which are predominately non-profit entities…
these bastards are for profit. their business is scamming students.
- stolid_agnostic ( @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml ) 7•8 months ago
Can people just finally stop enrolling in for-profit institutions? They are all dirty like this.
- TheForkOfDamocles ( @theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org ) 5•8 months ago
No surprise whatsoever. They ramped up their spending on ads probably 100x about 10 years ago. They bought a basketball star for a coach, sold naming rights to their sports complex—newly built and upgraded—and leveraged that into widespread billboards and commercials.
Aside: I taught in Phoenix at the time and every graduate from GCU in my subject area without fail was ill-prepared yet supremely confident—a bad combination. It would seem, now that they’re nationwide online, a la University of Phoenix, they’ve become a diploma mill. They also really push the “christian university” angle hard to get into the pockets of those rubes.
- HowMany ( @HowMany@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months ago
You’d think as much money as god makes that he’d make his colleges free.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 3•8 months ago
Why does the legal system hate Jesus?