According to The Tennessean:
Nicholas Cutcher came home from the war, eager to train for his peacetime career.
What he got, after nine months of study and $15,000 worth of tuition, was a degree from High-Tech Institute of Nashville that he says was worse than useless. Months after he earned his degree as a limited-scope X-ray technician, he still hasn't found work...
…"Why did I pay $15,000 a year for a job that's going to pay me $12 an hour?" said Cutcher, who served as a medic in Iraq and returned home with a Purple Heart. The federal G.I. Bill, and by extension American taxpayers, picked up the tab for his education.
Seems like the industry requires an Associates Degree, rather than a certificate, to even think of employing an allied healthcare worker. Crutcher says his qualifications were laughable when he worked at unpaid intern positions following his graduation. He had not been instructed in many of the fundamentals, such as properly positioning a patient preparatory to taking an X-ray.
And, The Tennessean reports, there is more:
But Stratton Douthat, who spent four months last year working as an admissions recruiter for High-Tech Institute in Nashville, said his experience at the school was more like working for a high-pressure used-car dealership than an educational institution. Recruiters operated under strict quotas, made hundreds of calls a day to try to drum up new students and would go down to the unemployment office to try to entice the newly unemployed to enroll at the school, he said. "They're supposed to be changing lives," Douthat said. "They were after those student loans and Pell grants."
The Directors of Admission for Nashville and Atlanta must have hurried out the building before the hiring interviews concluded in order to cash the government checks. Priorities.
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