Ethical practices of for-profit universities

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Ethical practices of for-profit universities
While researching on ethical practices for universities I discovered that For-Profit Universities had been accused and criticized of unethical practices regarding marketing of programs, recruitment of students, quality of education, graduation and job placement rates, and students` reliance on financial aid. This then led to my interest in writing an article that would discuss the unethical practices employed by For-profit Universities. Examples of For-profit organizations include Kaplan University, DeVry University, and the University of Phoenix.
For-profit universities such as University of Phoenix and DeVry University have of late found themselves in a tough situation. They have been under investigation by the government for deceptive practices and recruitment frauds (ABC news 1). A recruiter was found to have lied to a student that a University of Phoenix associate`s degree would allow her to teach in Illinois. ABC News and Chris Cuomo had done their own investigations and they were shocked to discover that their own undercover producer was encouraged by a recruiter to take out the maximum loan amount and he had also given him incorrect information about his ability to teach if he completed a University of Phoenix bachelor's degree.
Associations have come up for the sole purpose of guiding and counseling potential college students and making people aware of unethical practices of For-Profit Universities. National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) is an example of such an association. It is a non-profit association of nearly 1200 high school counselors and college admission officers across the United States. The association represents more than 1600 high schools and 1100 not-for-profit public and private colleges and universities (Hawkin1). The core mission of NACAC is to provide a code of ethics for the college admission counseling profession (Hawkins1). The association has found that some organizations are violating some ethics guidelines and so it has come up with principle for the benefit of students and universities.
The first principle is that members should not offer or accept any reward or remuneration from a college, university, agency or organization for placement or recruitment of students. Members will be compensated in the form of a fixed salary, rather than commissions or bonuses based on the number of students recruited. This has been clearly violated by For-Profit Universities and colleges in that a former worker of the Phoenix University Ryan Richardson, complained that he decided to leave work as he had been frustrated and disillusioned by the high-pressure tactics used to recruit students (Coutts 2011). A GAO report shows that several of these universities and colleges employ unethical tactics in recruiting even though most of these schools earn large profits from taxpayers` money (Curtis...