Lance Hill: Corporate ed research: Lik... Lance Hill: Gates' research? As once s... The Washington Post's dependence on the government it covers - Glenn Greenwald. (updated below – w/correction) The Washington Post this morning published a lengthy article detailing the fortune — and now the trouble — generated for its parent company, The Washington Post Co., as a result of its acquisition of Kaplan Higher Ed. While The Post continues to lose money, Kaplan — particularly its sprawling network of for-profit “universities” which the company began building in 2000 — generates huge profits for the company, profits on which the Post Co. depends almost completely for its sustainability.
Indeed, the newspaper has become little more than a side vanity project for the Post Co. and the Graham family which continues to dominate it; it is now, at its core, in the business of profiting off of lower-income students who pay for diplomas, often obtained via online classes. The Post Co. realized there were risks attached to being dependent on federal dollars for revenue — and that it could lose access to that money if it exceeded federal regulatory limits. The Washington Post Company. American diversified company Corporate history[edit] The history of Graham Holdings Company dates back to 1877, when the Post was first published.
The Washington Post Company was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1889,[3] and remained a District of Columbia corporation until it changed its place of incorporation to Delaware in 2003.[4] It is a public company and its Class B common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GHC; it went public in 1971. Since 1950, the company had been based in the Washington Post building in Washington, D.C., which was sold off separately in 2014. Its new headquarters are at 1300 North 17th Street in Arlington, Virginia, with the choice of state motivated (according to Don Graham) by the proximity to Congress and the fact that two of the holding's activity areas, education and health care, are subject to federal regulation.[5] Holdings[edit] Education[edit] StudentAdvisor.com is the latest[when?] Broadcasting[edit] Kaplan University. Kaplan University (KU) is the "doing business as" (DBA) name[2] of the Iowa College Acquisition Corporation, a company that owns and operates for-profit colleges.
It is owned by Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company.[3] Kaplan University is predominantly a distance learning institution of higher education that is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). Kaplan University was named in honor of Stanley H. Kaplan,[4] who founded Kaplan Test Prep.[5] Kaplan University has faced several federal whistle-blower lawsuits whose accusations dovetail with the findings of an undercover federal investigation which revealed high-pressure recruiting and unrealistic salary promises.[6] Kaplan's enrollment has declined from 119,000 to 65,000 amid these scandals. [7] History[edit] The American Institute of Commerce was established in 1937 before changing its name to Quest College.
Academics[edit] Kaplan Higher Education - Home. The trials of Kaplan Higher Ed and the education of The Washington Post Co. The bet was big — the price equal to the profits earned that year by The Post Co.’s print-media pillars: this newspaper and Newsweek magazine. So was the payoff. The acquisition of the firm, called Quest Education, turbocharged the rise of Kaplan, a modest business that had until then mainly prepared students for standardized tests. Today, Kaplan is a multinational, multibillion-dollar enterprise with 70 campuses and nearly 100,000 students, many of them online, many of them reliant on government aid. This newspaper, meanwhile, has struggled to remain profitable amid dramatic changes in the news industry. But what proved a deftly timed business move brought other, less welcome scrutiny to a family-run company that had long prided itself in serving the public interest. The Education Department is now imposing stringent new conditions on the federal student loans that have become the lifeblood of for-profit schools, including Kaplan.
“I believe in what Kaplan Higher Education does. The Washington Post Company. The Washington Teacher. Liberty University blocks newspaper website for reporting on its federal financial aid haul - War Room. Last month, the Lynchburg News & Advance reported that Liberty University, the evangelical private school founded by Jerry Falwell and run by Jerry Falwell Jr., received almost half a billion dollars in federal financial aid money last year. After we pointed out that that was more federal money than NPR received last year, Liberty University apparently blocked access to the News & Advance website for at least one day. Yes, Liberty University is exactly like Communist China. Liberty University officials at first claimed they were unashamed of receiving so much government cash, but apparently they later thought it embarrassing enough to attempt some clumsy censorship.
Not that Falwell admitted that that’s why he blocked it! “Most of the websites that are blocked have to do with obscene material, material that is inappropriate,” Falwell said. But Jim Romenesko says he learned that the financial aid story is what led to the blocking. Remaking the American University: Market-Smart and Mission-Centered. Sheldon Krimsky - Home Page. Sheldon Krimsky is professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University and adjunct professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at the Tufts School of Medicine. He can be reached via phone, fax, email or written correspondence. Sheldon Krimsky Professor Department of Urban and Environmental Policy & Planning Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 Telephone: 617-627-3394 Fax: 617-627-3377 Email: sheldon.krimsky@tufts.edu Bio | Publications | Science & Ethics Publications | Biotechnology Publications | Endocrine Disruptors Publications | Risk Analysis Publications | Books | Commentaries | Book Reviews | Courses | Links | Corrupted Science | Home ©2005 Sheldon Krimsky.
Robert Zemsky | Penn GSE. Robert Zemsky has spent his career at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on how best to keep universities true to their missions while at the same time remaining market smart. He currently serves as chair of The Learning Alliance, a broad coalition of experts assisting institutions of higher learning in striking the balance between market success and public mission.
He also is currently a Senior Scholar for the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (Penn AHEAD) at Penn GSE. At Penn, Prof. Zemsky has been the university's chief planning officer, and served as master of Hill College House. For 20 years, he served as the founding director of the university's Institute for Research on Higher Education, one of the country's major public policy centers specializing in educational research and analysis.
In his research, Prof. Something of a contrarian, Prof. Prof. Prof. Prof.