analyzing different articles and comparing them to Carry

As I read “For-Profit Colleges Deserve Some Respect,” by Seiden, I noticed one main element in particular that illustrates Carry’s claim that every year, more and more collee graduates of for-profit colleges are having a very difficult time paying back their loans. Seiden mentions green, yellow, and red categories of students that for-profits enroll. He says that the red students, who show no commitment into getting obtaining a higher education, should not be enrolled out of force because they are either unwilling or aren’t financially stable enough to pay for college. These students are the ones who use up the financial and human resources. The time and effort spent on these students could have been more successfully used on students who truly wish to continue their education.

Another article that complicates one of Carry’s claims is “For-Profit Colleges, Vulnerable G.I.’s,” by Holly Perteaus. Carry mentions that the 90/10 rule should be at least be diluted to 85/15 because it is coming out of the public’s pockets and raising taxes. However, one thing I didn’t know about the system is that if you serve in the military and then wish to go to college, the military education benefits constitute for the 10 percent. In other words, this is a separate fund specific to educating veterans and isn’t considered public financial assistance. This essentially means even fewer people are able to actually pay for college because the 10 percent is being shared with military veterans.

A public comment from the article, “Inside Ashford University: A former staffer talks to WiredAcademic” is a good complication to one of Carry’s claims. “I have been attending for the last year and other than some occasional displeasure and inconvenience with the financial aid office, I have been more than pleased with my enrollment and academic advisors as well as the education I am receiving.” This opens the idea that maybe its not the for-profit universities that are all bad, maybe the financial aide system is a little corrupt and needs to take some blame for the debt infestation running through former students of for-profits.