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Mileena Moss wishes she hadn’t gone to her for-profit college at all and had simply tried to find another job when she was laid off last year.

Esther Yoon-Ji Kang/WBEZ

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Mileena Moss wishes she hadn’t gone to her for-profit college at all and had simply tried to find another job when she was laid off last year.

Esther Yoon-Ji Kang/WBEZ

Dreams dashed: The broken promises of for-profit colleges

The schools often target first-generation, low-income, and Black and brown students for recruitment. Students say they get saddled with debt and little to no job prospects.

Mileena Moss wishes she hadn’t gone to her for-profit college at all and had simply tried to find another job when she was laid off last year.

Esther Yoon-Ji Kang/WBEZ

   

New federal regulations go into effect Monday that could withhold federal funding from 60% of Illinois’ for-profit schools unless they’re able to improve performance.

A WBEZ investigation found that for-profit colleges target and recruit vulnerable communities, and that students that attend these colleges often leave worse off than when they started. Reset digs into the findings of the investigation.

GUESTS: Amy Qin, WBEZ data reporter

Esther Yoon-Ji Kang, WBEZ race, class, and communities reporter

Lisa Kurian Philip, WBEZ higher education reporter

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