Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com)

alphadogg quotes a report from Networkworld: Browsing through the latest news releases from ITT Technical Institute you'd never think the for-profit school would be capable of the things that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says the state is suing it for. The school, which boasts of over 130 locations in 38 states, touts its efforts for women in STEM, its donation of laptops to public schools in Indiana and its record giving for United Way. But AG Healey is suing ITT Tech "for engaging in unfair and harassing sales tactics and misleading students about the quality of its Computer Network Systems program, and the success of the program's graduates in finding jobs." ITT Educational Services, however, rejected the AG office's claims and lashed out at the office for the manner in which it has brought the suit. ITT's statement reads in part: "The litigation follows the Office's wide-ranging fishing expedition that lasted for more than three years..." If the state wins, the school could be forced to reimburse students for tuition and fees, though ITT says it will defend itself against the charges.

Comments

Commercialized education sucks...

[gweihir]

It really is no surprise at all. Happens to traditional universities all over the planet as well: As soon as they think they can get rich on tuition or money from the state, they try to enroll as many students as possible and then waste their time with education quality going down the drains. An excellent example for a field where capitalism does a lot more harm than good.

Re: im sure theres a very simple explanation

[Anonymous Coward]

Having been the first person in my family to go to college with parents who knew zero about quality of education and pressured me into going to ITT because it was local, I can assure you it wasn't as obvious to me 15 years ago.

Re:Attended - a first person perspective

[Anonymous Coward]

same AC

The capstone was decent, but not from the provided resources.
The people involved actually worked well together as a team.

The task was to create an application with defined requirements. We did 2 hours/day in-class, then met up at another guys house every weekend for 8-10 hour coding sessions. The professor was oblivious to the outside work thinking we'd fail. We completed an application with installer and documentation. Almost every requirement was met. The team self-organized in an Agile-like way (before Agile was popular) and everyone coordinated tasks well, with the exception of Visual Source Safe, that was a sorry excuse for version control. We settled on the lowest common denominator - VB 6.0 / MS Access (VS2003 was crash-prone). In the end, it worked except for a color bug caused by using theme colors on an artists customized box.

Programmers don't need school as much as they need something to achieve as a group.

Something funny about you're post

[rsilvergun]

You're OK with a shoddy education so long as they don't make claims that are veritably false? I'm not calling you out, but I think it's worth taking a moment to let that sink in... IMHO we've let sketchy businesses get away with this kind of crap too long. Yeah, you and me know better. But there are _lots_ of desperate and vulnerable kids without the kind of critical thinking skills needed to realize ITT is a scam. Imagine if you went to a crappier school and maybe had an alcoholic parent or two. Or if you live in Flint and just got a healthy dose of lead in your drinking water... Suckers aren't just born, their made... :(