For-Profit Vs. Traditional College

I have recently read an essay written by author Kevin Carey, called, Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges? Upon reading his background, I found it to be quite interesting. Kevin Carey researches higher education for an Education Sector in Washington DC. He has written publications for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, and the New Republic. He was once an assistant state budget director in Indiana as well as an adviser to the governor of Indiana, also to states’ Democratic Caucus. At Johns Hopkins, Carey teaches education policy and contributes in a monthly column; Chronicles of Higher Education. In his essay, Carey discusses how for-profit colleges help fill a void that has been left behind by traditional colleges, whom once believed their world was constant.

Due to aggressive recruiters that have been eliciting students to take out unnecessary large loans for degrees that are practically useless, there are a vast and increasing number of graduate students from for-profit colleges that are finding it difficult to pay off their loans. To help solve these students’ financial crisis, the Obama administration defeated the student-loan business enterprise. They have proposed diminishing the federal aid to for-profit colleges that have been a burden to students with uncontrollable debt.

My perception about Kevin Carey's, Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges? It seems as though he is promoting for for-profit colleges and trying to abolish traditional colleges. I completely disagree with the for-profit college stance. The fact that mostly all the for-profit colleges are online based, takes away from the college experience, not only to mention that the demand for higher educators will more likely be depleted. Another factor to consider about for-profit colleges, that Carey has mentioned that professors have created this fast-developing method of teaching, but who is to say you are getting