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Tressie McMillan Cottom

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How For-Profit Colleges Sell 'Risky Education' To The Most Vulnerable

For-profit colleges promise access to a better way of life for their students, but more often they exploit the people who need them most, says Tressie McMillan Cottom who once worked as an enrollment officer at two for profit colleges. She left after she became uncomfortable selling students an education they could'nt afford. She's now a sociologist and author of the new book Lower Ed.

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