Everyone knows about the problems with Trump University. Trump should just be glad that Trump U didn’t have a Division I NCAA football team, or else he might well have Title IX complaints to go with the class action civil suit.
But did you know that Bill Clinton was a university chancellor? I didn’t either.
Jonathan Turley reports:
Laureate Education has been sued over such
programs as its Walden University Online offering, which many have alleged is a
scam designed to bilk students of tens of thousands of dollars for degrees.
Students says that they were repeatedly delayed and given added costs as they
tried to secure degrees, leaving them deeply in debt.
The respected Inside
Higher Education reported that Laureate Education paid Bill Clinton an
obscene $16.5 million between 2010 and 2014 to serve as an honorary chancellor
for Laureate International Universities. While Bill Clinton worked as the
group’s pitchman, the State Department funneled $55 million to Laureate when
Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. That would seem a pretty major story
but virtually no mainstream media outlet has reported it while running hundreds
of stories on the Trump University scandal.
There was even a class action — like the
Trump University scandal. Travis et al v. Walden University LLC,
was filed in U.S. District Court in the District of Maryland but dismissed in
2015. It is not clear why it was dismissed. However, the size of the contract
to Clinton, the payment from State and the widespread complaints over alleged
fraud should warrant a modicum of attention to the controversy. The controversy
has many of the familiar complaints over fraudulent online programs that take
advantage of hard working people.
Some of the disgruntled students have made claim about
high pressure sales tactics and poor quality instruction that sound exactly
like the complainants against Trump U.
