Not to run roughshod over any concerns expressed subsequent to introduction, speaking on the underlying matter, my experience over the past three months and the ultimate end result (which while not as ambitious as I would have hoped still amounts to progress) has led me to the conclusion that there needs to be aggressive policy to reign in the fraud, abuse, grift and outright scamming that is occurring in higher education, driving up the cost and bankrupting our economy from the bottom up.
This in turn has knock on effects towards ability to buy homes, start businesses, save and invest. It also leads to higher costs for most any professional service as they have to in turn charge more as well.
The worst offenders are by far the pro-profit private institutions and while not all of them necessarily meet the classical definition of a "diploma mill", their sheer cost and sheer worthlessness of the product offered would have to make anyone capable of independent analysis desire criminal prosecutions to ensue.
Are you speaking of for-profit private education institutions in general? If not, do you believe the current language needs to be strengthened? The value of any degree needs to be made very clear from the beginning, before the student commits or uses any special aid or scholarships.
I suppose all that depends on whether you can write language into the bill that specifically targets for-profit private institutions.
