<p>"If the experiments prove successful, they could make it easier for competency-based programs to qualify for student aid, opening the federal coffers to a much wider swath of nontraditional programs."</p>
<p>A new initiative offers an interesting option for non-traditional college students. How effective will these experiments be in giving these students a better opportunity to graduate?</p>
<p>The for-profits are probably going to eat this up as they do now. I sure wish the for-profits weren’t getting any of my tax money for their unaccredited scams.</p>
<p>I doubt it will go very far. The Government is currently after for-profit school and many are closing their doors.</p>
<p>student loans flow like water already. many people sign up for the for profits “schools” the schools get $$$$ as do the “students” who promptly buy new 65 inch tv’s and take trips to disney. the schools get their part of the $$$ and the “students” just add to their massive debt they are already in.(and many do not really care)
no classes are taken either online or at the fake local school for training to become an assistant to the assistant to the ultrasound tech.</p>
<p>to me the student loan fraud /scam with for profits and the beauty/ medical assistant “schools”. is on the same level as fake slip and fall and workers comp scams. </p>
<p>What college student do you know is using financial aid money to buy 65" televisions and take trips to Disney? I mean, I suppose it is theoretically possible, but do you actually have any examples of students doing this? Personally, I do not. The students I know who go to for-profit schools are borrowing the big bucks to pay for the inflated tuition at these places, and it seems like they stay on the treadmill without actually graduating from there, but there are actual classes (regardless of what we think about the quality of those classes).</p>