{"id":4506,"date":"2020-08-04T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2020-08-04T17:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:49:21","slug":"working-to-reign-in-unscrupulous-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/working-to-reign-in-unscrupulous-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Working to Reign in Unscrupulous Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wonk-Graphic1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4511\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wonk-Graphic1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wonk-Graphic1.png 592w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Wonk-Graphic1-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a>NACAC members work every day to help students find colleges and universities that will be a good academic and financial fit. Unfortunately, some colleges take advantage of students, particularly students who are low-income, minority, first-generation, military, or veterans, among others from underserved and underrepresented groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To support these students, NACAC has developed a student\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/globalassets\/documents\/advocacy-and-ethics\/gr\/policy-briefs-2019\/studentprotections2019.pdf\"><span class=\"s1\">protection agenda<\/span><\/a>, which is meant to hold colleges accountable for predatory recruitment tactics and poor academic programs. These institutions heavily recruit students and charge exorbitant prices, often with students\u00a0dropping out before obtaining a degree. In many cases, the student would have been better off not enrolling at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Recently, NACAC and several other education-related organizations sent a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thirdway.imgix.net\/Risks-to-Students-in-Post-COVID-Higher-Ed.pdf\"><span class=\"s1\">memo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to Congress about the risks to students in post-COVID higher education. Many colleges aren\u2019t even open yet, but there has been an increase in predatory recruitment among these colleges. We anticipate these tactics to get more egregious as students reimagine their academic futures and seek options that will allow them to safely pursue their degrees. We urged Congress to include student protection provisions outlined in the memo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Our organizations also joined together to place an advertisement on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\">thehill.com<\/span><\/a>, a widely read political website, highlighting the memo and our call to action.\u00a0 The ad will remain online through August 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Mike is the NACAC\u2019s director for government relations. You can reach him at mrose@nacacnet.org.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NACAC members work every day to help students find colleges and universities that will be a good academic and financial fit. Unfortunately, some colleges take advantage of students, particularly students who are low-income, minority, first-generation, military, or veterans, among others from underserved and underrepresented groups. To support these students, NACAC has developed a student\u00a0protection agenda, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/working-to-reign-in-unscrupulous-colleges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Working to Reign in Unscrupulous Colleges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-advocacy","category-college-admission","category-legislation"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Michael Rose","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/michael-rose\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-1aG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}