2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary’s emails reveal lucrative ties to for-profit colleges
While Hillary loves to rail against shady for-profit colleges on the campaign trail, she does have some financial ties to them that are likely to shape whether or not she holds them accountable for ripping students off.
It was recently revealed through Hillarys emails that during her first year as Secretary of State she insisted that Laureate Education be included in the guest list for an education policy dinner hosted at the U.S. Department of State.
Its a for-profit model that should be represented, she wrote in the August 2009 email, and as a result, a senior vice president at Laureate was added to the guest list. Several months later, former President Bill Clinton became an honorary chancellor of Laureate International Universities, which turned out to be incredibly lucrative. He was paid a cool $16.5 million between 2010 and 2014 for his role with the for-profit college.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/hillarys-emails-reveal-lucrative-ties-to-for-profit-colleges/
For-profit colleges, for-profit prisons, for-profit charter schools, for-profit healthcare, everything that contributes to the common good Hillary wants to profit off of.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)down with free community college/ public uni for all... would cut into her Sponsor's bottom line.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)more $$ for her university buds.....
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)think
(11,641 posts)azmom
(5,208 posts)I can't vote for that.
CanadaexPat
(496 posts)BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)They make glowing promises, saddle the student with thousands of dollars in student loans and all the student gets is a worthless degree. i should be no for profit education, healthcare (including nursing homes) and prisons. People are NOT commodities!
beedle
(1,235 posts)Pays over ~$3 million a year????
Yeah, there it is: Right there with his tax filings, along with GEMS, the worlds largest private education company, and Teneo, an International consulting company for CEO's (such as UBS -- remember them, of money laundering fame? Clinton had to quit this one due to some controversy with one of his associates, Doug Brand, former personal assistant and counselor to President Bill Clinton who assisted in creating the Clinton Global Initiative.)
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)Shameful.
2cannan
(344 posts)I believe at the same time she worked at State and for the Clinton Foundation. If you're in Hillary's inner circle you are set for life (unless you get indicted I guess....).
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/nyregion/weiners-wife-huma-abedin-failed-to-disclose-consulting-work-done-while-a-state-dept-aide.html?referer=
amborin
(16,631 posts)CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)Rhetorical question.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,453 posts)Thanks for the thread, ForgoTheConsequence.
amborin
(16,631 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)And made critical remarks about the for profit education industry, which Bill had collected $16 million from over the previous 5 years.