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The nation's largest Christian university just got fined $38 million for lying about tuition costs (www.friendlyatheist.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So they are getting hit with cost of business. 100k students with 78% being affected, 50k tuition that is actually 25% more than advertised.

(78,000 students)(50,000 tution)(.25) = 975million they made just from extra fees tricking those students. A 38 million fine should be on top of the 975million they pay back for conning people. Why would they stop when they make money off of this?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I agree and hate it all, but as far as why would they stop, they are also under new scrutiny for the future and have guidelines/oversight applied specifically to GCU to monitor and inform current and future enrollees: https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-office-federal-student-aid-fines-grand-canyon-university-377-million-deceiving-thousands-students

*I also think they should be paying extra annually for the taxpayer-funded oversight

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

they aren't your run-of-the-mill church-affiliated liberal arts college or university, which are predominately non-profit entities..

these bastards are for profit. their business is scamming students.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

YOU HAD JUST 10 RULES TO FOLLOW

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Well, coveting thy students' tuition isn't on the list, so...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Many religious institutions seems confused about whether fraud counts as stealing or bearing false witness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well, it was supposed to be 15.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Could we just get a GitHub repo started and slowly whittle away the contradictions and redundancies, with the express goal of just getting into the heaven. Has a sect already done this?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Can people just finally stop enrolling in for-profit institutions? They are all dirty like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

All the best lies were started by religious grifters. Why all the shocked faces?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You'd think as much money as god makes that he'd make his colleges free.