{"id":6214,"date":"2012-04-09T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2012-04-09T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:51:10","slug":"congress-wary-of-for-profit-schools-recruiting-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/04\/09\/congress-wary-of-for-profit-schools-recruiting-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Wary Of For-Profit Schools Recruiting Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Senate<\/p>

U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, is a co-sponsor of a bill increasing oversight of GI Bill funds.<\/p><\/div>\n

For-profit colleges and universities are swarming military veterans seeking more education after serving in Afghanistan, Iraq or some other location, NPR reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Te reason is simple: Veterans have access to college money though the GI Bill.<\/p>\n

Many of the vets wind up on phone and email lists by seeking information through website which seem like they are connected to the GI Bill program:<\/p>\n

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Daniel Elkins, a legislative associate with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, recently did what a lot of vets do \u2014 he went to a site like gibill.com<\/a> and answered a battery of questions about his educational goals and background. When prompted, he provided his email address and zip code. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The response, he says, was overwhelming.<\/p>\n

“Within three to four days, I got in the excess of 70 phone calls and … well over 300 emails,” Elkins says.<\/p>\n

That’s because gibill.com is a commercial site run by a company called QuinStreet, a so-called “lead generator.”<\/p>\n

Lead generators like QuinStreet sell the information they collect primarily to for-profit colleges and universities. With their generous marketing budgets, for-profit schools can afford to pay for leads to guide them to vets considering enrolling in college.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But members of Congress may put the brakes on for-profit school that aggressively recruit students but may not deliver a degree worth its price. Kentucky’s Attorney General is leading a multi-state effort to investigate whether the sales pitches violate consumer protection laws.<\/p>\n

For-profit higher education is a rapidly growing sector. For comparison, students at public colleges and universities received $18.4 billion in federal Pell Grants in 2010<\/a> while students at for-profits schools received $7.6 billion in Pell Grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For-profit colleges and universities are swarming military veterans seeking more education after serving in Afghanistan, Iraq or some other location, NPR reports. Te reason is simple: Veterans have access to college money though the GI Bill. Many of the vets wind up on phone and email lists by seeking information through website which seem like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1038,1077,1076],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6218,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}