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[–] RampageDon@lemmy.ml 74 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So they are getting hit with cost of business. 100k students with 78% being affected, 50k tuition that is actually 25% more than advertised.

(78,000 students)(50,000 tution)(.25) = 975million they made just from extra fees tricking those students. A 38 million fine should be on top of the 975million they pay back for conning people. Why would they stop when they make money off of this?

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree and hate it all, but as far as why would they stop, they are also under new scrutiny for the future and have guidelines/oversight applied specifically to GCU to monitor and inform current and future enrollees: https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-office-federal-student-aid-fines-grand-canyon-university-377-million-deceiving-thousands-students

*I also think they should be paying extra annually for the taxpayer-funded oversight

[–] ares35@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago

they aren't your run-of-the-mill church-affiliated liberal arts college or university, which are predominately non-profit entities..

these bastards are for profit. their business is scamming students.

[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

YOU HAD JUST 10 RULES TO FOLLOW

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Well, coveting thy students' tuition isn't on the list, so...

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Many religious institutions seems confused about whether fraud counts as stealing or bearing false witness.

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Could we just get a GitHub repo started and slowly whittle away the contradictions and redundancies, with the express goal of just getting into the heaven. Has a sect already done this?

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well, it was supposed to be 15.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Can people just finally stop enrolling in for-profit institutions? They are all dirty like this.

All the best lies were started by religious grifters. Why all the shocked faces?

[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

You'd think as much money as god makes that he'd make his colleges free.

[–] theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

No surprise whatsoever. They ramped up their spending on ads probably 100x about 10 years ago. They bought a basketball star for a coach, sold naming rights to their sports complex—newly built and upgraded—and leveraged that into widespread billboards and commercials.

Aside: I taught in Phoenix at the time and every graduate from GCU in my subject area without fail was ill-prepared yet supremely confident—a bad combination. It would seem, now that they’re nationwide online, a la University of Phoenix, they’ve become a diploma mill. They also really push the “christian university” angle hard to get into the pockets of those rubes.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Why does the legal system hate Jesus?