What's at Risk?

The Senate and the Department of Education recently have tried to tighten up regulation to ensure that students attending "for-profit" institutions better understand their debt loads. After a series of Senate hearings and the release of default rate data, the regulatory environment facing career colleges has come down to statistics that blur the lines regarding repayment and have focused legislators' attention on a few schools who recruit aggressively. So often in Washington, the debates get sidetracked or even lost when it comes to the real subject at hand – in this case, students.

To tell the students' stories and bring some perspective to the current discussion, we have joined with the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities to bring you a special edition of Career College Central. The magazine features more than 120 graduate and employer success stories from across the nation. Below you will find stories we didn't have room for in our print edition. More than 2,000 campuses were asked to contribute stories to this magazine, which should give you an idea of the career education sector's expansiveness. We received more than 1,000 replies, and the evidence has continued rolling in well after our print deadline.

You can find more graduate and employer success stories on the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities' web site, www.APSCU.org/StudentSpotlight.

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