by Kay Luna, Quad Cities Times
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin sees the mission of a typical university as helping students learn and graduate. But a federal investigation led by Harkin seems to show that for-profit universities such as Davenport-based Kaplan Higher Education and Clinton’s Ashford University are focused on making money, and about 87 percent of that revenue comes from the federal government, he said. After holding a series of public hearings over the past year in Washington, D.C., Harkin, D-Iowa, just held his final one last week and is beginning to write legislation to change how for-profit schools are funded. “This is an industry that needs some very careful oversight and some regulation or changes in law to make this industry more accountable to both students and to taxpayers,” Harkin said. “The information we’ve uncovered, it’s just really startling. “We are already starting to prepare legislation because this is an area that just cries out for something to be done.”
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