Download the spreadsheet by 3rd Way and see how horrible the outcomes are for Zenith students. The outcomes include graduation rate, student loan repayment rate, and percentage making $25K following college.
http://www.thirdway.org/report/the-state-of-american-higher-education-outcomes
Third Way is actually backed by Wall Street, not liberals.
third wave? Isn't that a liberal think tank? Why yes it is and is pushing for free college for everyone. So who pays for free college? The taxpayer. Who pays for federal student loans? The taxpayer. Doesn't matter one way or another the taxpayer ends up paying for it. You think if there was free college for everyone that everyone who go? Would CC rise up to better educate? Hell no because it is all about the money. If someone offered you $80,000 to make hamburgers or $65,000 to sit on your butt at home which would people choose?
Everest exists, because of the old adage "there is a s---er born every day." The s---er is either the student or the government (taxpayer).
Community colleges have been hit hard, to the tune of a 1.6 million drop in enrollment (versus 600,000 for for-profit colleges). State funding to community colleges is limited. Arizona no longer sends funds to its community colleges.
http://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/2017/05/community-colleges-at-heart-of-college.html
The comment about community colleges being cheaper is not true. The CC is subsidized by the state. If you remove the subsidized portion ... costs are similar. Also, the CC provides little in the form of professional development and career placement, which this segment of students is in dire need of.
The reality is that cost is cheaper for the individual but it costs society as a whole in the terms of tax dollars. CC colleges do not report outcomes as a Career College does. However, what is known is that the CC fails a significant portion of its students, specifically those that are high risk. Those failures result in bad debt that the CC writes off ... hence you the tax payer cover.
I'm still trying to figure out why schools like Everest exist. The outcomes are abysmal, costs are significantly higher than community colleges, and students end up with debt and no better paying jobs than had they never attended the school. Time to pull the plug.
I think the name change for the Everest schools will change all this.
I'm shocked !!!!
This can't be true can it????
Does it surprise anyone? Everest and WyoTech are still all about the money. The number one priority is keeping attrition down. Keep them in school no matter what and sell add on classes. Put the students as deep into debt as you can because we're losing money. When you enroll the bottom of the barrel you don't put out very good graduates.
Even worse than I thought. Every member of Congress and the media should get a copy of this report. What's all the more depressing is that the Devoss wants to relax the rules that the Obama administration put into place. They were just the start of what is needed.
Regarding Everest, they need to go away.