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# Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream

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    A useful read for scholars of fraud and corruption in higher education
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in Canada on 23 December 2022*

I read this book from the perspective of a scholar of fraud and corruption in higher education. I have also published on the topic of fake and fraudulent degrees and diploma mills. I found Angulo's book helpful and insightful. The historical perspectives offered in this book were particularly useful to understand the development of the for-profit education industry in the United States.

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    Diploma Mills
  

*by L***T on Reviewed in the United States on 21 June 2019*

The inside story of diploma mills!  A great read!

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    The high price to taxpayers of spurious investment in for-profit schools should be no surprise
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on 28 February 2016*

There is a strong tendency for reviewers to focus on the book they think the author should have written instead of how well w/he did at writing what s/he set out to do. There are a large number of aspects of what Winthrop University professor A. J. Angulo (who holds two graduate degrees from Harvard) terms “for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) in his succinct history Diploma Mill$.The book Angulo actually did write is a long-time-frame account of FPCUs in the United States based mostly on published sources of data. This he does very well, recalling (at least to me, since I have read literature on the emergence of professionalization of law and medicine) the absence of professional training before the Civil War and the gradual growth of professional standards and professional education in the “progressive era” (1890-1916). Just how untrained physicians through most of the 19th century were is scary.Universities were reluctant to add business schools (though one would hardly guess that from the focus on MBAs now!) and for-profit business programs taught good penmanship as well as accounting.Though FPCUs existed through the 19th century, the real boom fed on the federal money aimed to educate WWII veterans. The enabling legislation (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944) specifically forbade any attempt to impose national standards and most states showed no interest in establishing the efficacy (in terms of skills or employment related to “training” and “education” funded by the GI Bill). The number of FPCUs jumped from less than 2000 in 1944 to more than 7000 by 1949. A 1950 VA study of allegations of fraud found that 78% were made against for-profit institutions, many of which took the money and ran (aka “fly by night” businesses that disappeared, plus those going into bankruptcies).That boom (with concomitant education bust) paled before the gold rush by FPCUs following the Higher Education Act of 1965. Those setting up Educational Opportunity grants should have looked at how so much money was diverted from education to marketing and other kinds of administration maximizing profits in the case of the GI bill(s). Actually, no knowledge of this history is necessary to guess that if the federal government insured student loans, institutions would recruit “students” wanting degrees rather than any education and that the profits from guaranteed loans would guarantee recruitment of those who would drop out and default on loans, especially with little or no education actually available to them.Similarly, anyone with much familiarity with American politics would know that there would be resistance to any objective evaluations (of FPCUs, or of anything else), that there would be concerted efforts to fund Christianist institutions (“Bible colleges”) with tax dollars under the guise of “religious freedom,” and that massive lobbying campaigns would water down any attempts at regulation. The appointment of industry insiders with an aversion to regulating the institutions they had been employed by or would be employed by after leaving office is especially flagrant in the case of the federal education officials appointed by George W. Bush and California ones appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the examples of US Senators caving in return for fairly negligible favors (not just campaign contributions) from FPCU lobbyists Angulo mentions are very liberal Democrats, Ted Kennedy and Tom Harkins. (After demanding evidence from Reagan’s Secretary of Education William Bennett against one of Kennedy’s contributors,  Kennedy publicly accepted that allegations were true.)If not amazing, it is appalling that FCPUs managed to dilute the requirement that 15% of FCPU income for institutions certified for guaranteed stundent loans not come from the federal government’s guaranteed loans to 10%. I think that it should be 50+%.Having tried to stay within the bounds of the book Angulo wrote, I will extend beyond his inquiry to point out (as he occasionally alludes to) that some of the problems of rapidly rising administrative costs and executive salaries (as more and more of the teaching is done by adjuncts who are paid little more than Walmart greeters), grade inflation and general debasement of standards afflict public and private (nonprofit) colleges and universities, too, but the quantitative differences between them and NCPUs are very staggering. Take the $42 million 2009 compensation for Robert Silberman, CEO of for-profit Strayer Education (in contrast to $800,000 for the president of Harvard). And the ratio of spending on marketing to that on providing education is similarly off-the-chart for FPCUs in comparison to nonprofit educational institutions.

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