False Advertising for College Is Pretty Much the Norm
It’s not just for-profit institutions. The most prestigious universities also claim to help students, and also fail to prove that they do.
Go and make disciples of all nations. Or at least find a job.
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The administration of President Donald Trump just made it easier for for-profit colleges to get away with making fake promises about things like graduation rates and job placements. That's regrettable. But let's not let prestigious institutions off the hook. They aren't exactly rigorous when they tout the benefits of higher education, either.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed new rules to make it harder for students to get loan forgiveness from schools that lured them with false advertising. Notably, the government wants to make aggrieved students show that the schools actually intended to defraud them, a high burden of proof.