This project studied four career college and school campuses in Texas that had higher than average graduation rates and lower than average student loan default rates to determine what they did to achieve these positive outcomes. The visits to the campuses found that a conscious, concerted effort to integrate students into the academic and social…

Describes PTC Career Institute, the educational division of Philadelphia Training Center Corporation, which provides educational and emotional support for educationally, economically, and socially disadvantaged students. (JOW)

Describes how, by limiting itself to Florida but pushing the bounds of for-profit education, the Keiser colleges are finding success by offering students courses that lead to better jobs. (EV)

Discusses factors at play in the tremendous growth in for-profit institutions of higher education, including non-traditional students, emphasis on employment, hands-on teaching methods, and convenient scheduling. (EV)

Discusses how some for-profit colleges are preventing lawsuits by using contracts that require arbitration to settle disputes. (EV)

Describes the student loan management program at the Divers Institute of Technology. Includes preparation of student loan portfolios, entrance interviews, midpoint interviews, and follow-up. Indicates that there must be more and better communication among lenders, secondary markets, services, guarantee agencies, students and schools to reduce the…

Teachers have the greatest opportunity of all school staff to influence student persistence by virtue of the amount of time they are with students. Includes 17 items every teacher must have in his or her retention plan. (JOW)

Discusses the for-profit education sector's rush to consolidate. Large, publicly traded schools are looking to expand their businesses, while smaller schools are finding it hard to maintain growth or expand on their own. (EV)

This annual report, in its eighth edition, found that after several years of growth, the EMO (Education Management Organization) industry appears to be entering a period of reconfiguration. In this year's "Profiles", the number of companies listed and the number of schools they manage are down slightly; student enrollment in EMO-managed…

The library program of an independent elementary and secondary school serving 550 students is summarized. (PF)

The article discusses whether or not proprietary schools are living up to the claims they make about training and placement according to standards of the Federal Trade Commission. (BP)

This country's ten thousand proprietary, or profitmaking, vocational schools are big business. They enroll over 3 million students each year, producing gross annual revenues of at least 2.5 billion dollars on which substantial corporate, property, and personal income taxes are paid. Cosmetology schools represent a third of the total number; trade…

Contends that the decline in American education is real and results primarily from governmental interference. Argues for private schools which would use resources more efficiently to provide superior educational opportunities. (GEA)

Examines some major trends affecting the private career school industry and suggests methods for dealing with the effects of those trends. (JOW)

The author states that, contrary to popular opinion, profit-making schools are not more likely to exploit their students or employees than public or private, nonprofit schools. He gives examples of exploitation by the public education sector. (CH)