And why don’t they ever learn?
Because they don’t care.
After all, it’s only your tax money.
Still.
You’d think that just one person at NASA might do a quick check of the universities from which their employees graduate, and the kinds of degrees they’re earning. After all, NASA pays their tuition.
The Office of the Inspector General has found that NASA misused $1.4 million in tax money by reimbursing dozens of its employees who pursued degrees outside NASA’s established programs at for-profit colleges, such as the University of Phoenix (the subject of an ABC News 2010 investigation) and Strayer University.
Now notice the non-reimbursable schools. They’re not diploma mills; they’re our old friends the scandalous tax-syphoning for-profits… So … Écoute: The beauty here is that you, the American taxpayer, are getting your ass whipped in two different ways:
1.) Your taxes pay tuition for the aggressively recruited flunkies at the for-profits;
2.) and your taxes pay for the compensation federal employees (like the NASA people) receive for illegitimately attending (not really attending, of course; everything’s online) the same for-profits.
[B]ecause this $1.4 million represents tuition payments for only a sample of employees at the four Centers and Headquarters where we conducted detailed audit work, we concluded that an examination across all NASA Centers likely would result in substantially higher questioned costs.
This is from the NASA Office of Inspector General. Great to know there are probably lots more cases.
The OIG found that 11 of the top 20 universities NASA employees attended were private or for-profit institutions that are on average 3.6 times and 1.6 times, respectively, more expensive than public universities.
So much for the argument that the for-profits make college affordable for poorer people. Of course you knew already – didn’t you? – that for-profits are extremely expensive? I mean, why wouldn’t they be? It’s only your tax money.
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You think this will change? This won’t change.
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Don’t enough people in this country hate the federal government? I guess not.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:31PM
I’m not sure if I would want a University of Phoenix graduate designing my rockets.
This OT, but I thought you would like this. The really important schools don’t seem to have much backbone themselves.