I thought I was teaching for a noble institution and felt
honored to be there. Then I watched an episode of 60 Minutes where they did an
expose on CEC, Career Education Corporation (my employer). It was not good.
CEC owned some seventy two colleges and universities across
the globe. This was back in 2006. I
don't know what the numbers are today.
60 Minutes exposed some of the colleges owned by CEC as
completely dishonest and fraudulent. Some of the colleges owned by Career
Education Corporation were selling useless degrees to unsuspecting students.
The colleges were putting the students tens of thousands of dollars in debt
then giving them a useless degree for which they would go out into the world
and forage for jobs offering minimum wage with no hope of a better life.
Harrington College of Design was not implicated in any of
the wrong doing alleged by 60 Minutes.
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