Military Veterans' Experiences in For-Profit Higher Education

Abstract

In 2010, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP Committee) published a series of reports that called attention to aggressive and misleading recruiting practices and high rates of dropout and student loan defaults at for-profit colleges. Because education benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense do not count as federal Title IV financial aid under a law requiring that at least 10 percent of revenue at for-profit colleges come from non-Title IV sources (the so-called 90/10 rule), the reports raised particular concerns about for-profit institutions recruitment of military veterans. The HELP Committee noted that in the first year after the new, Post 9/11 GI Bill took effect in August 2009, 36.5 percent of the benefits went to for-profit institutions, though these institutions enrolled only 23.3 percent of beneficiaries (U.S. Senate, 2010).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA562076

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People

  • Jennifer L. Steele

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  • RAND Corporation

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  • Active Duty
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Homeland Security
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Students
  • United States
  • Universities

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  • Education

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