- clifford calls himself an educational entrepreneur
- invests in colleges and turns them around, making a bundle of money
- wrote a book 'how to run a college if youve never been to one'
- took over Interamerica college in 2009... the economy is changing so kids are more likely to go to school
- cheaper online courses are looked down apon
- studies have shown that students have done better in online courses because there is no place to hide.. everyone has to hand in everything and participate
- spend alot on advertising
- spend the same amount or more than multimillion companies such as Tide
- industry relies on a group of sales people
- sales people go to people searching for jobs to get them interested in the university
- sometimes the sales people focus on the number of enrollments instead of quality students
- some sales people have been known to use illegal forms of recruiting
- "the pressure is to create a high-education-quality"
- rumors of enrollment couselors being very pushy and pressuring
- enrollment counselors were told to 'dig deep and get to what is bothering them so they can tell them why getting a college degree will solve their problems'
- ray campbell was incharge of getting students student loans
- many have been told that it wouldn't be a problem if they couldn't afford the student loans but in the end, they are put deep into debt with high interest rates
- 95% of students are supposedly able to pay off their loans
FOR-PROFIT INSTITUTES IN BC:
- CDI
- Valley School of Beauty
- Utopia
- Art Institute
- DeVry
- Academy of Learning
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