Political Quotes

“more than a year ago, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and I sent a letter to Purdue University President Mitch Daniels in which we expressed our concerns about Purdue's proposed acquisition of the predatory, for-profit Kaplan University. Kaplan was notorious in the for-profit college industry for their mistreatment of students. They had been the subject of numerous State and Federal investigations and lawsuits for misleading marketing claims, inflated job placement numbers, and unfair recruiting. As Senator Brown and I cautioned at the time, Kaplan's troubled history posed major risks for Purdue's current students and the institution's reputation as a top public university. We suggested that at the very least Purdue should commit to clear protections and reforms for students if it intended to press on with the transaction. Among our suggestions was an end to the use of predispute mandatory arbitration in student enrollment. Predispute mandatory arbitration clauses prevent students from bringing suit against a school in a court of law when the school harms a student, like misleading them about job placement rates or luring them with other false information. Instead, students are forced into a dispute resolution process, known as arbitration, which lacks the procedures and precedents of the court system and is often stacked against students. The proceedings themselves, including the outcome, are secret which hides misconduct from regulators and accreditors.…”