Former DeVry official hired to run Education Dept. enforcement unit: report

[demmiblue]

Source: The Hill

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Julian Schmoke — who serves as the executive director of campus relations for West Georgia Technical College — has been hired for the job, Politico reported.

Schmoke formerly worked as an associate program dean for DeVry's college of engineering and information sciences.

The Student Aid Enforcement Unit was created last year to "respond more quickly and efficiently to allegations of illegal actions by higher education institutions."

DeVry University last year agreed to a $100 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that the for-profit college ran deceptive advertisements.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348503-former-devry-official-hired-to-run-education-dept-enforcement-unit

[catbyte]

1. Perfect. A scam, ripoff artist chosen to head the Enforcement Division.

DeVry has ruined lives by their high-pressure loan tactics & low graduation rates, sticking thousands of low income students with loans totaling tens of thousands of dollars with no way to pay them back. Before I retired, I worked at a state university in a federal TRiO program designed to assist low-income, at-risk individuals enter postsecondary educational programs. I can't tell you the number of people we couldn't help because, a few years earlier, they succumbed to high pressure tactics at places like DeVry, ITT Tech, etc. & took out loans for programs they either couldn't complete because they ran out of money, or they did complete & were only qualified for minimum wage, entry level positions & couldn't afford to pay back the loans so they defaulted. This prevented them from obtaining any more federal financial assistance such as Pell grants, so they were shit out of luck.

Now they have a fox guarding the hen house. As I said before, perfect.

[Botany]

2. This makes sense to me because Trump's election integrity group has Kris Kobach and ...

..... Ken Blackwell on it's board. So why not have somebody who is connected to
DeVry U. that has just had to pay $149 million* in fines and repayments to students
for selling them a scam education w/phony promises of employment after they graduate
w/a DeVry degree.

For God's sake America wake the fuck up Trump is a con man who hires other con men
to bilk all of us.


* https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/devry-refunds-debt-forgiveness

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/12/devry-university-agrees-100-million-settlement-ftc

[Astraea]

3. Because when I think of quality education,

I think DeVry.

I'm still paying off a loan for one semester of classes there. All for credits that don't transfer to other universities. Thanks DeVry!

[Eugene]

4. Kakistocracy on steroids.

They are going out of their way to find the worst possible people to govern.

[demmiblue]

5. Mr. President, stop the madness.

Link to tweet

[jmowreader]

6. How Trumpista Foxes Guard a Henhouse

Once upon a time, Farmer Smith had a henhouse in Michigan with 100,000 hens in it. He decided to move to Oregon to start another henhouse there, and keep the one he has in Michigan. He knew he needed a guard, so he put an ad in the newspaper: "WANTED - Guard Company for Large Industrial Egg Operation." He received one bid - from the Trumpista Fox Henhouse Guarding Company. He called them in for an interview. The head fox, whose name was Donald, arrived five minutes late for the meeting.

"Your bid is good and your proposal is acceptable, but I am a little bit hesitant," said Farmer Brown.
'And why would that be?' asked Donald Fox.
"Because you're foxes! Haven't you heard about hiring a fox to guard the henhouse?"
'But you're not hiring "a" fox, you're hiring 150 of the greatest foxes ever. You'll love our service. It'll be the greatest henhouse of all time.'

Farmer Smith agrees and a contract is reached. On the appointed day, Farmer Smith gets in his truck and begins the long drive to Oregon. Thirty minutes later, the foxes eat all but twelve of the chickens. These they turn out into a pasture to fend for themselves.

Donald Fox gets a worried phone call from Farmer Smith. "My brother reports you have chickens foraging in a pasture. I run a battery operation. Why are there chickens in a pasture?"
'We've decided to move to a free-range operation. It'll be yooge. You'll see.'

Three days later, Farmer Smith calls again. "I just got a phone call from my egg broker. It seems that before you took over we were shipping 8,000 dozen a day. Now we're shipping one dozen per day and we're about to lose our contract. Is there something wrong?"
'No, nothing is wrong. The chickens are so happy with our new system, they've forgotten about laying eggs. But they'll start again soon.'
"Donald, what are you talking about? Chickens don't 'forget' to lay eggs any more than you 'forget' to take a leak in the morning. They just lay eggs because they were born to do it."
'Well, I guess you've never treated your chickens right.'

Three days later...yup, you guessed it.
"Donald, I think we have a serious problem. I just got a call from my garbage contractor. It seems the only thing he's picking up from my farm these days are empty egg cartons, and none of them are Smith's Farm Eggs cartons. Would you care to explain?"
'We buy eggs every day from the competition to compare them against our eggs. Our eggs are head and shoulders above those other eggs. People love 'em. We can't keep up with demand.'
"Donald, you stupid shit, of course you can't 'keep up with demand.' You're only producing twelve fucking eggs a day. What do you think is going to happen?"
'We have chosen to market to a more discerning egg customer who will appreciate our high-quality products.'

Five days later...
"Donald, this is Farmer Smith. Boy, you got some explaining to do. My brother was driving past my farm a few days ago. You know those twelve chickens you've got out there on your new so-called free-range egg production program? They're all roosters. I am at the Detroit airport right now renting a car to drive out to my farm. When I get there, we're going to have a very long talk."

Two hours later, Farmer Smith arrives at his farm. He discovers that before the foxes abandoned the property en masse they ate the twelve roosters. He also finds a note on the door to his farmhouse: "You better get a good lawyer, asshole. Our contract specified you wouldn't interfere in our operation. If you think we're going to forget about that, you're crazy."