Showing posts with label edugrift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label edugrift. Show all posts
Monday, August 25, 2025

Can College Presidents Tell Us the Truth?

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“Truth? You can’t handle the truth!” Jack Nicholson’s Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men captures the tension at the heart of American highe...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Consumer Alert: Lead Generators Still Lurking for Bodies

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Predatory lead generators are still lurking the internet, looking for their next victims.  These ads continue to sell subprime online degree...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Civil Rights Groups Sue Facebook and Instagram For Targeting Predatory College Ads at Black Users (David Halperin)

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A nonprofit advocacy group sued Meta this week, contending that the tech giant’s Facebook and Instagram platforms facilitate the targeting ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

College Inc. Redux is Overdue

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We desperately need a PBS Frontline updating of College Inc. This 2010 documentary by Martin Smith and Rain Media took us behind the...

Academia Insider (Andy Stapleton)

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Andy Stapleton of Academia Insider provides a great public service to consumers by exposing the social realities of graduate school edu...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Ambow's HybriU. Is any of this real?

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Ambow Education is at it again, pumping up its stock with another edtech business deal. This time, they sent out a press release that a Sin...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Workers at 2U expect more layoffs in 2024

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After successfully completing its recent bankruptcy proceedings , 2U workers expect another round of layoffs .  2U, with its subsidiary edX,...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

2U Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Will Anyone Else Name All The Elite Universities That Were Complicit?

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2U declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy today and the company is now valued at less than $5M. That's a small shadow of the $5.4B perceived va...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

HurricaneTWOU.com: Digital Protest Exposes Syracuse, USC, Pepperdine, and University of North Carolina in 2U edX Edugrift

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A new website to inform student consumers has popped up. It's called HurricaneTWOU.com . The website authors identify themselves as a gr...