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SD,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, February 16, 2006
COW = Contract Out Withstanding In other words, a signed enrollment agreement. It's nothing to worry about. It's just shorthand for an internal technical term. Hardly anything unethical about that. AIU Online is a for-profit school and they make their money with students who start and pay tuition. Enrollments lead to starts, so the admissions staff works to admit as many qualified students as possible. I worked for them, and I go to school there, too. As someone who knows both ends of the business, I can assure you that one of their primary concerns for the admissions staff is integrity in dealing with potential students. It was hammered into us CONSTANTLY. AIU Online has to deal with the US Department of Education, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the parent company CEC is publicly-traded), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (their accrediting body), and the Illinois Bureau of Private Post-secondary Education as regulatory agencies. They're not about to risk ticking off all those regulators (and thereby risk losing their accreditation , ability to work with Federal Financial Aid, and/or corporate status) for something so dumb as calling a potential student a silly name.
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SD,#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, February 16, 2006
COW = Contract Out Withstanding In other words, a signed enrollment agreement. It's nothing to worry about. It's just shorthand for an internal technical term. Hardly anything unethical about that. AIU Online is a for-profit school and they make their money with students who start and pay tuition. Enrollments lead to starts, so the admissions staff works to admit as many qualified students as possible. I worked for them, and I go to school there, too. As someone who knows both ends of the business, I can assure you that one of their primary concerns for the admissions staff is integrity in dealing with potential students. It was hammered into us CONSTANTLY. AIU Online has to deal with the US Department of Education, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the parent company CEC is publicly-traded), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (their accrediting body), and the Illinois Bureau of Private Post-secondary Education as regulatory agencies. They're not about to risk ticking off all those regulators (and thereby risk losing their accreditation , ability to work with Federal Financial Aid, and/or corporate status) for something so dumb as calling a potential student a silly name.
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SD,#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, February 16, 2006
COW = Contract Out Withstanding In other words, a signed enrollment agreement. It's nothing to worry about. It's just shorthand for an internal technical term. Hardly anything unethical about that. AIU Online is a for-profit school and they make their money with students who start and pay tuition. Enrollments lead to starts, so the admissions staff works to admit as many qualified students as possible. I worked for them, and I go to school there, too. As someone who knows both ends of the business, I can assure you that one of their primary concerns for the admissions staff is integrity in dealing with potential students. It was hammered into us CONSTANTLY. AIU Online has to deal with the US Department of Education, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the parent company CEC is publicly-traded), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (their accrediting body), and the Illinois Bureau of Private Post-secondary Education as regulatory agencies. They're not about to risk ticking off all those regulators (and thereby risk losing their accreditation , ability to work with Federal Financial Aid, and/or corporate status) for something so dumb as calling a potential student a silly name.
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SD,#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, February 16, 2006
COW = Contract Out Withstanding In other words, a signed enrollment agreement. It's nothing to worry about. It's just shorthand for an internal technical term. Hardly anything unethical about that. AIU Online is a for-profit school and they make their money with students who start and pay tuition. Enrollments lead to starts, so the admissions staff works to admit as many qualified students as possible. I worked for them, and I go to school there, too. As someone who knows both ends of the business, I can assure you that one of their primary concerns for the admissions staff is integrity in dealing with potential students. It was hammered into us CONSTANTLY. AIU Online has to deal with the US Department of Education, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the parent company CEC is publicly-traded), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (their accrediting body), and the Illinois Bureau of Private Post-secondary Education as regulatory agencies. They're not about to risk ticking off all those regulators (and thereby risk losing their accreditation , ability to work with Federal Financial Aid, and/or corporate status) for something so dumb as calling a potential student a silly name.