Soldier Can’t Recall His Course Lessons at For-Profit College - Bloomberg.com

Soldier Can’t Recall His Course Lessons at For-Profit College - Bloomberg.com: "Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Marine Corps Corporal James Long knows he’s enrolled at Ashford University, one of at least a dozen for-profit colleges making money off active-duty military with subsidies from American taxpayers. He just can’t remember what course he’s taking...

...'It’s about flexibility and options,' said Rick Cooper, vice president of military and corporate programs at Columbia Southern University in Orange Beach, Alabama. 'You can enroll any day of the week, any week of the year.'

Columbia Southern grants transfer credits to soldiers for courses in which they earned grades as low as D. Grantham University in Kansas City, Missouri, has handed out free laptop computers and American Military in Charles Town, West Virginia, gives free textbooks as recruitment inducements."