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For-profit colleges, led by Apollo Group Inc .’s University of Phoenix, will be disproportionately hurt by cuts in the $30 billion Pell Grant program for low- income students.
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For-profit colleges, criticized by the U.S. for their recruitment practices, are facing increased state regulations as the government weighs measures to tighten access to federal student aid.
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Apollo Group Inc ., operator of the University of Phoenix, said an accreditor’s panel may recommend “corrective action” after a review of recruitment and financial aid practices at the largest U.S. for-profit college.
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to question a jury verdict that may force Apollo Group Inc. , the owner of the University of Phoenix, to pay more than $300 million for deceiving shareholders.
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Twenty for-profit colleges reaped $521 million in U.S. taxpayer funds in 2010, seven times more than in 2006, by recruiting armed-services members and veterans through misleading marketing, according to a Congressional report today.
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Richard Holwell, the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the trial of Raj Rajaratnam, is a former corporate lawyer who condemned insider trading in two recent cases he has handled during his eight years on the bench.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc., McKinsey & Co. and Intel Corp. are among the companies that may be sued or suffer damage to their reputations after witnesses at the trial of Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam describe insider leaks, Bloomberg News’s David Glovin, Patricia Hurtado and Bob Van Voris report.
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For-profit colleges, whose recruitment practices have been probed by Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs, got a boost from changes to a veterans’ benefits bill approved in December.
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After Keith Melvin, a disabled and decorated veteran, returned from Iraq, he wanted to earn a bachelor’s degree in legal studies.
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Benson Rollins wants a college degree. The unemployed high school dropout who attends Alcoholics Anonymous and has been homeless for 10 months is being courted by the University of Phoenix . Two of its recruiters got themselves invited to a Cleveland shelter last October and pitched the advantages of going to the country’s largest for-profit college to 70 destitute men.
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