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Dick Durbin Allegedly Insults Student as For-Profit College Debate Unfolds
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyDavid Mahan, a 29-year-old student studying digital design, says an angry Sen. Dick Durbin noticed him wearing a T-shirt for his college -- Illinois Institute of Art, Schaumburg (ILIS) -- while protesting outside an education hearing Durbin was holding at the Dirksen building last Tuesday. Mahan (a veteran who served in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan) tells me that after some back-and-forth, Durbin said: "I don't give a tick s--- about ILIS." A Durbin spokesman denied the Democratic senator made that particular remark, but Matt Reams, another ILIS student who witnessed the encounter, insists ...
As Congress Investigates For-Profit Colleges, Students Face Risky Choices
By Elizabeth Schiffman - Politics DailyAre rising college enrollment numbers a bad thing? In October 2008, the share of 18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high. According to a Pew Research Center analysis of the most recent U.S. Census data available, just under 11.5 million students, or 39.6 percent of all young adults ages 18 to 24, were enrolled in a two- or four-year college in October 2008. Cynical views of these numbers stem from the fact that most of the growth is from for-profit colleges. The increased interest in post-secondary education has increased demand and competition for ...
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