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Higher education reporter for Bloomberg News and co-author of a series on private for-profit colleges that won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize
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Campus Sexual Assault Gets Attention of White House, Activists The start of the fall semester is the time when sexual assaults are most common on the campuses of colleges and universities. The Obama Administration has launched a campaign called “It’s On Us,” designed to engage both women and men—on campus and off.
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Regulating For-Profit Colleges Across the country, public community colleges are inundated with applicants, but filled to capacity at a time when the public sector is cutting back. In the past ten years, private, for-profit colleges have picked up the slack by targeting low-income and minority students with massive recruiting campaigns.
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