USD Veterans Legal Clinic in the News
- Veterans Legal Clinic Offers Free Legal Advice . November 10, 2025
- Former Ban on LGBT Troops Still Haunts Veterans. August 8, 2022
- For-Profit Colleges that get GI Bill Money need more oversight, veterans say. December 11, 2019
- Failing to Protect Student GI's. April 24, 2019
- Are For-Profit Universities Taking Advantage of Veterans?. July 24, 2015
U.S. Senate Investigation and Report
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) Report: For Profit Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the Federal Investment and Ensure Student Success.
- Executive Summary (pdf)
- Part I (pdf)
- Part II (pdf)
Top Ten Tips for Evaluating Schools
- Free and low-cost education and training options are available.
- If a school or training program sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- Research, research, research.
- Avoid unlicensed schools.
- Don’t sign up the day you visit a school.
- Never sign anything you don’t understand.
- Ask for the school’s tuition cancellation policy in writing.
- Be careful of taking on a lot of debt.
- Avoid schools that “guarantee employment” after you graduate.
- You have the right to file a complaint.
Media Stories
- Los Angeles Times: Editorial: Dollar signs in uniform: Some for-profit schools take advantage of GI Bill veterans, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without educating them (Los Angeles, CA) November 12, 2012
- Boston Globe: Editorial: For-Profit Colleges Need Closer Scrutiny (Boston, MA) September 8, 2012
- The Oregonian: For-profit college report card is unsettling (Portland, OR) August 18, 2012
- The Spokesman-Review: Editorial: For-profit colleges are wasting public funds (Spokane, WA) August 15, 2012
- Harrisburg Patriot News: Failing Grade: Congress must reform for-profit college system (Harrisburg, PA) August 10, 2012
- The Seattle Times: Discuss: For-profit colleges focus on profit rather than students (Seattle, WA) August 8, 2012
- Reporter Herald: For-profit schools get a bad grade (Loveland, CO) August 6, 2012
- The Star-Ledger: For-profit colleges must stop ripping off students, taxpayers (Newark, NJ) August 5, 2012
- The New York Times: Closer Scrutiny of For-Profit Schools (New York, NY) August 3, 2012
- The Boulder Daily Camera: Taxpayers bilked by for-profit schools (Boulder, CO) August 3, 2012
- San Francisco Chronicle: Flaws in aid to for-profit colleges (San Francisco, CA) August 2, 2012
- Kennebec Journal: Our Opinion: For-profit colleges not good use of taxpayer funds (Augusta, ME) August 1, 2012
