Carey's Main Claims

1. Carey’s first claim in the article is that For-Profit colleges charge much more for tuition than Community Colleges and Universities. He backs up this claim with statistics stating the amount charged for a four year University and then how much for a For-Profit Institution. Carey’s second claim is that For-Profit colleges are receiving ridiculous amounts of money from the government. He provides evidence that the students are receiving Pell Grants and Subsidized Loans to pay. The third Claim is that the schools are growing at a very rapid rate to the point where they are highly unlikely to be stopped. He supports this by stating how they used to by “mom and Pop trade schools but now they are turning into mass corporations.
2. The first claim that Carey makes about the positives of For-Profit schools is that they fix the gap left by universities and they accept the students that weren't able to get into those schools. He supports this by stating that the schools offer night classes so people can work during the day and that they also don't look at past grades for acceptance. The second claim he makes is that these big corporate schools are able to save the sick and dying schools by buying them out and turning them into a For-Profit. He provides evidence that Grand Canyon University has bought out many smaller schools to build on and to save the students that attend these schools. The third claims is that they make the attempt to appeal to the general public. He backs this by stating that They offer a wide variety of class forms that can help almost anyone get a degree such as online.
3. I would like to investigate the 90/10 law and see how the Universities are fighting it and how it works.