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The nation's largest Christian university just got fined $38 million for lying about tuition costs

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-nations-largest-christian-university
RampageDon - 2.1yr

So they are getting hit with cost of business. 100k students with 78% being affected, 50k tuition that is actually 25% more than advertised.

(78,000 students)(50,000 tution)(.25) = 975million they made just from extra fees tricking those students. A 38 million fine should be on top of the 975million they pay back for conning people. Why would they stop when they make money off of this?

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ares35 - 2.1yr

they aren't your run-of-the-mill church-affiliated liberal arts college or university, which are predominately non-profit entities..

these bastards are for profit. their business is scamming students.

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doublejay1999 @lemmy.world - 2.1yr

YOU HAD JUST 10 RULES TO FOLLOW

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themeatbridge - 2.1yr

Well, coveting thy students' tuition isn't on the list, so...

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squiblet - 2.1yr

Many religious institutions seems confused about whether fraud counts as stealing or bearing false witness.

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Coasting0942 @reddthat.com - 2.1yr

Could we just get a GitHub repo started and slowly whittle away the contradictions and redundancies, with the express goal of just getting into the heaven. Has a sect already done this?

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Alexstarfire @lemmy.world - 2.1yr

Well, it was supposed to be 15.

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stolid_agnostic - 2.1yr

Can people just finally stop enrolling in for-profit institutions? They are all dirty like this.

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UnapologeticAnarchist [none/use name] - 2.1yr

All the best lies were started by religious grifters. Why all the shocked faces?

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HowMany - 2.1yr

You'd think as much money as god makes that he'd make his colleges free.

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TheForkOfDamocles - 2.1yr

No surprise whatsoever. They ramped up their spending on ads probably 100x about 10 years ago. They bought a basketball star for a coach, sold naming rights to their sports complex—newly built and upgraded—and leveraged that into widespread billboards and commercials.

Aside: I taught in Phoenix at the time and every graduate from GCU in my subject area without fail was ill-prepared yet supremely confident—a bad combination. It would seem, now that they’re nationwide online, a la University of Phoenix, they’ve become a diploma mill. They also really push the “christian university” angle hard to get into the pockets of those rubes.

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shiveyarbles @beehaw.org - 2.1yr

Why does the legal system hate Jesus?

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