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[–] RampageDon@lemmy.ml 69 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 12 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 23 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 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

YOU HAD JUST 10 RULES TO FOLLOW

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 1 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 1 points 2 years ago

Well, it was supposed to be 15.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] 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.

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

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

Why does the legal system hate Jesus?