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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBetsy DeVos Hires Former DeVry Official To Investigate For-Profit Fraud
Betsy DeVos has hired a former official at the for-profit college DeVry University to run a unit that investigates for-profit college fraud, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The hiring of Julian Schmoke to head the so-called enforcement unit, which was first reported by Politico, prompted anxiety and frustration from some people inside the Education Department who had worked on fraud investigations, said a person with knowledge of the situation.
Reactions to the move are tied up in a record-breaking $100 million settlement against DeVry, reached last year with the Federal Trade Commission, over allegations that the school had misled students about their chances of getting a job. The company also reached settlements with the New York attorney general and the Education Department.
Despite the fact that Schmoke was not closely involved in DeVry's corporate operations, some staff at the Education Department were upset concerned, one person at the department said, about the unit's ability to hold for-profit colleges, especially DeVry, accountable.
Schmoke will oversee a unit that is actively looking into DeVry's operations, according to two people with knowledge of the enforcement unit's work. And he will help determine the fate of more than 1,875 former DeVry students who filed claims saying they were defrauded by the university. Those students filed so-called "borrower defense" claims, saying that they were defrauded by DeVry and are entitled to have their student loans forgiven.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/betsy-devos-hiring-of-a-former-for-profit-college-dean-to?utm_term=.px82memA4#.cuJ3ZPZeY
The hiring of Julian Schmoke to head the so-called enforcement unit, which was first reported by Politico, prompted anxiety and frustration from some people inside the Education Department who had worked on fraud investigations, said a person with knowledge of the situation.
Reactions to the move are tied up in a record-breaking $100 million settlement against DeVry, reached last year with the Federal Trade Commission, over allegations that the school had misled students about their chances of getting a job. The company also reached settlements with the New York attorney general and the Education Department.
Despite the fact that Schmoke was not closely involved in DeVry's corporate operations, some staff at the Education Department were upset concerned, one person at the department said, about the unit's ability to hold for-profit colleges, especially DeVry, accountable.
Schmoke will oversee a unit that is actively looking into DeVry's operations, according to two people with knowledge of the enforcement unit's work. And he will help determine the fate of more than 1,875 former DeVry students who filed claims saying they were defrauded by the university. Those students filed so-called "borrower defense" claims, saying that they were defrauded by DeVry and are entitled to have their student loans forgiven.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/betsy-devos-hiring-of-a-former-for-profit-college-dean-to?utm_term=.px82memA4#.cuJ3ZPZeY
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Betsy DeVos Hires Former DeVry Official To Investigate For-Profit Fraud (Original Post)
Initech
Sep 2017
OP
Because people did what they did last November, your public education system is DONE
Eliot Rosewater
Sep 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. Because people did what they did last November, your public education system is DONE
Count on it
Sure is preferable though to someone who ... ... ..
oops, I almost went there again
leftstreet
(36,106 posts)2. You just can't make this shit up
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)3. DeVos...DeVry....DisGusting!
(closest I could get to a clever word play...)
But it truly is.
MineralMan
(146,286 posts)4. The Farmer Has Let the Fox into the Henhouse through
the front door. Bad decision.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)5. Shouldn't conflict of interest stop this hire? nt
Initech
(100,063 posts)6. Ha ha ha ha ha ha... conflict of interest!
Last edited Fri Sep 1, 2017, 08:32 PM - Edit history (1)
That hasn't stopped anyone in this horrid administration so far!
chowder66
(9,067 posts)7. I deserved that. nt
Initech
(100,063 posts)8. I should have put the sarcasm tag on.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)9. I should have put more snark in my comment but I'm boiling in Hollywood, CA.
My brain is mush on a good day.... it's pea soup today! ; )