Blog — For-Profit Education

June 10, 2011

This Is The Document Morgan Stanley Doesn’t Want You To See

By crewstaff

Education, For-Profit Education, Federal Agencies, Department of Education, FOIA, Transparency, Wall Street, DOE and Wall Street

Freedom of Information, Transparency Today, at the request of Morgan Stanley, ScribD removed from its website a document CREW had obtained from the Department of Education in response to a Freedom of Information Act. CREW had requested documents referencing certain for-profit education companies. Morgan Stanley has made the bizarre claim that posting this email is a copyright violation.

From the contents of the email, it seems quite clear what Morgan Stanley is really trying to hide is the extent of its efforts to influence Education’s gainful employment regulations.

The Release of the Gainful Employment Regulations is Not the End of the Scandal

Americans should wonder whether DOE’s regulatory process was co-opted by investors with private financial interests. Read More ›

June 2, 2011 | Education, For-Profit Education, Federal Agencies, Department of Education, Transparency

Why is the Department of Education Rushing Regulations?

Reports that DOE has sent the controversial "gainful employment" regulations to OMB for final review raise serious questions Read More ›

May 4, 2011 | Education, For-Profit Education, Federal Agencies, Department of Education, DOE and Wall Street

Education Update – More, Many More, Emails to Come

Education claimed to have produced all records of efforts by Wall Street investors to influence regulation of the for-profit education industry. But there's more. Read More ›

April 8, 2011 | Education, For-Profit Education, Federal Agencies, Department of Education, Transparency, DOE and Wall Street

Praise from Both Sides of the Aisle

CREW always has been a non-partisan organization, calling out ethics violations as we see them, regardless of party affiliation. But that hasn’t stopped some of the politicians we’ve criticized from claiming otherwise. Read More ›

March 4, 2011 | Congress, Education, For-Profit Education, Ethics, House, News, States, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Governors, Bobby Jindal, Senate Members, James Inhofe , Tom Coburn

Finding the Truth About For-Profit Education

Contesting an American Prospect article on the role of progressives and CREW in the battle over student-loan reform and for-profit education. Read More ›

October 6, 2010 | FOIA Requests (Legal Filings), Education, For-Profit Education, DOE and Wall Street

For-Profit Education: Will We Ever Learn?

Earlier this month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a scathing report about the for-profit college industry. After conducting undercover tests at 15 for-profit colleges, the GAO found that representatives of four colleges had encouraged applicants to engage in fraud to secure government college loans and that representatives at all 15 had attempted to deceive applicants in some way. Read More ›

August 18, 2010 | Education, For-Profit Education, Melanie Sloan, DOE and Wall Street