Oct 15, 2009: Ferreting Out Financial Aid Fraud
Rumor had it, in the days leading up to Wednesday's hearing before a House of Representatives committee, that officials from the U.S. Government Accountability Office were preparing to screen a video for lawmakers that showed officials at an unidentified for-profit college giving would-be students the answers to a test designed to gauge whether they have the "ability to benefit" from a higher education. The alleged misbehavior by the college official had already been made public -- it was by far the most explosive accusation made in a GAO report issued last month -- but the vision of an ACORN-like video that might live for eternity on Youtube and Metacafe suggested that Wednesday's hearing could be explosive and make life extremely uncomfortable for for-profit colleges.
Read the full article at Inside Higher Ed.
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