Tuesday, September 28, 2010

…Your Money. � The Quick and the Ed

…Your Money. � The Quick and the Ed

…Your Money.



The Association for Private Sector Colleges and Universities (formerly the Career College Association) provides the latest in a string of misleading advertisements from for-profit colleges protesting the Department of Education’s planned gainful employment regulations.

This ad highlights a successful graduate of a for-profit college and includes the tag line, “My education. My job. My choice.” But it forgot one more, very important, statement…Your Money.

The Department of Education isn’t forcing these schools to close or saying students can’t choose to attend them. The choice of where to attend college will remain in the hands of students. What the Department of