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The DOD Kicked University Of Phoenix Off Bases For BS Education And Predatory Lending
And they don't mean Bachelor of Science! 
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/10/12/the-dod-kicked-university-of-phoenix-off-bases-for-bs-education-and-predatory-lending/
The University of Phoenix is a fraud and people are finally starting to find out why. For-profit education isn’t a new invention, these places have been around since I was a kid watching old Gilligans Island reruns on TV and eating Spaghetti-o’s. Whether it’s some technical institute or fake college for artists, some are real and some want you to buy a worthless degree, they’re all over television with big promises for a great future....
But the University of Phoenix is different. The school has more of their students in debt than any other college or university in the country. While the number that is owed by those students tends to be a lower average, the school doesn’t equip the students to find skilled jobs that pay them enough to come close to paying off their loan to the school. According to a Brookings Institute report, “about 45% of students who left the University of Phoenix with loans in 2009 have defaulted.”
The typical student that defaults on a University of Phoenix loan, the report found, is a person of color and often the first in their family to attend college classes. Now think about the average person who signs up for the military. A 2008 study from Syracuse University (PDF) shows poor and minorities are disproportionately selected for recruitment by the military. The survey found “the all-volunteer force continues to see overrepresentation of the working and middle classes, with fewer incentives for upper-class participation.”
Perhaps, that’s why the Department of Defense is taking such great steps to get University of Phoenix off bases. They’re being pretty tight-lipped but a WaPo report quotes the DOD chief of voluntary education Dawn Bilodeau saying “when we are in receipt of reports on non-compliance.” Like a $25,000 concert at Fort Campbell that allegedly was a recruitment event in direct violation of the rules.
But the University of Phoenix is different. The school has more of their students in debt than any other college or university in the country. While the number that is owed by those students tends to be a lower average, the school doesn’t equip the students to find skilled jobs that pay them enough to come close to paying off their loan to the school. According to a Brookings Institute report, “about 45% of students who left the University of Phoenix with loans in 2009 have defaulted.”
The typical student that defaults on a University of Phoenix loan, the report found, is a person of color and often the first in their family to attend college classes. Now think about the average person who signs up for the military. A 2008 study from Syracuse University (PDF) shows poor and minorities are disproportionately selected for recruitment by the military. The survey found “the all-volunteer force continues to see overrepresentation of the working and middle classes, with fewer incentives for upper-class participation.”
Perhaps, that’s why the Department of Defense is taking such great steps to get University of Phoenix off bases. They’re being pretty tight-lipped but a WaPo report quotes the DOD chief of voluntary education Dawn Bilodeau saying “when we are in receipt of reports on non-compliance.” Like a $25,000 concert at Fort Campbell that allegedly was a recruitment event in direct violation of the rules.
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they were able to pay $154.5 million to the Arizona Cardinals for the naming rights of the stadium that they play football in.
