… but for-profit universities?
… Education Management Corporation operates Argosy University, Brown Mackie College, South University, and various Art Institutes…. [T]he company [has] hired DCI Group, a Washington-based lobbying and public relations firm … to coordinate a campaign against the Education Department’s proposed “gainful employment” rule.
… DCI Group [was] paid nearly $350,000 to represent Burma’s military junta. “It also led a PR campaign to burnish the junta’s image,” Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reported, “drafting releases praising Burma’s efforts to curb the drug trade…”
September 2nd, 2010 at 10:04PM
I guess Mark Penn had prior commitments.