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Student debt and defaults at private equity-owned for-profit colleges
From report “Private equity’s failing grade: Private equity investment in for-profit colleges” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) In October 2017, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that students who…
Private equity-owned for-profit colleges deemed “not financially responsible” by US Dept. of Education
From report “Private equity’s failing grade: Private equity investment in for-profit colleges” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) The US Department of Education requires colleges and universities to submit audited financial statements…
Who is targeted by for profit colleges?
From report “Private equity’s failing grade: Private equity investment in for-profit colleges” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) The impact of the for-profit college sector, including for-profit colleges owned by private equity…
Trump administration could be a boon for private equity-owned for-profit colleges
From report “Private equity’s failing grade: Private equity investment in for-profit colleges” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) Since taking office, Trump-appointed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, herself the former chair of…
Private equity’s failing grade: Private equity investment in for-profit colleges
(Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) For more than a decade, private equity firms have helped drive growth in the for-profit college industry in the United States, acquiring and helping to grow chains…
Despite foreclosure moratorium, Blackstone-owned firm advances some foreclosures in Puerto Rico
In December 2017, the New York Times looked at the role private equity firm The Blackstone Group’s mortgage firm Finance of America is playing in the growing foreclosure crisis in Puerto Rico (The Next Crisis for Puerto Rico: A…
