Undercover Agents Gather Evidence Of Misdeeds By For-Profit Recruiters

Undercover investigators posing as students interested in enrolling at 15 for-profit colleges found that recruiters at four of the colleges encouraged prospective students to lie on their financial aid applications — and all 15 misled potential students about their programs’ cost, quality and duration, or the average salary of graduates, according to a federal report. According to the report, the colleges in question were chosen because they got nearly 90 percent of their revenues from federal aid. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/education/04education.html?_r=2&ref=government_accountability_office