Go BYU!

Or, what's your name for Bernie Sanders? He came in second for the run for the Democratic Presidential candidate.

Maybe Obama plans to send the students of ITT to become optometrists, with the displaced coal minors. The man is an idiot! Or, maybe he plans to import more engineers and tech people via his open immigration, and forget the US workers.

Let's hear it for the Regime of O the Great and Powerful Deceiver and the fascist policies Shillary promises to continue!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=barWV...

Well, if not sick Shillary, looks like Bozo Biden will be up for Groper-In-Chief!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R5gH...

It is a shame that they closed just as classes were starting. Not sure if they just got sick of dealing with the feds or if they did it to prove a point. But whatever the reason, I get the impression it was cause by our meddling federal government.

ITT abandoned people half way through, or almost completed their courses, wasting all the time, money, and energy put into those courses. Some other private colleges in our area have volunteered to take up the slack if certain arrangements can be made. Hopefully it can be worked out, otherwise those poor souls are screwed.

I have heard of Hillsdale. It sounded like a good school. You are the first person I've heard from that actually has direct experience with the school. Glad it is living up to its reputation.

Years ago the feds told BYU that they were going to yank their funding because BYU refused to have coed dorms. BYU's response was "Go ahead, we don't receive federal funds." I guess that some of the federal employees didn't pass their third grade math. They didn't realize that 0-0 doesn't make much difference.

What have you heard about Hillsdale College located in Hillsdale, Michigan? It is a small private college offering a superb education. Students cannot attend using government money. I graduated from there in 1979. Smaller government, lower taxes, non- government interference in private enterprise, and free enterprise capitalism as depicted by Ludwig Von Mises and Adam Smith are the pillars of their economic premises. They would not sign the Title IX non-discrimination policy as required by the Feds as they have never discriminated from creation of the school in 1849. It's a great school. I am surprised the Gulch is not more engaged with them. Check it out please.

The real problem was this was that ITT was very expensive in the first place. Both my father and mother taught a class or two there as part-time instructors. Most of the students were those who didn't do well in college in the first place, but could get government loans or subsidies to defray the costs of attendance, which could easily be $15K per year. But the other major portion of the student body came from vets seeking to re-train and enter the labor force. It used to be that they could get money as a perk of being a vet to apply to education and they could use it however they wanted. But as more and more educational places like ITT, Stevens-Henager, Brown Mackie, etc., sprung up, the vets started going to these places because they were more convenient and had much smaller class sizes. The problem was that they weren't accredited in the same way as the major players like traditional colleges and universities. So the Feds under Obama changed the rules about how vets could spend the education money to include only educational institutions with traditional accreditations. ITT isn't the only one about to go under, as my dad has been forced to teach undergrad math at the local major university because none of the three above have the student base to keep him employed.

It's another reason why the Federal Government shouldn't be in the business of education!

Reveals the fedgov's genuine concern with the alleged domestic shortage of engineers, scientists, et al.
Close the schools, open the borders, enslave ambitious legal residents to socialism.

So true.

Not sure if they took federal money. I haven't studied it at all. Heard about it on the local talk radio program because one of the schools was local, in Madison, WI. It sounded like they were targeted because they were private but that could be a misconception. I'm wondering if there are other private colleges dealing with the same issues

Take Federal money, they've got you by the short hairs.