Whistle-Blower: For-Profit College Operator Allegedly Inflates Job Placement Rates

Jason Sobek says he left his job as admissions supervisor at the nation's second-largest operator of for-profit colleges -- the Education Management Corp., or EDMC -- on good terms. But before he quit, Sobek filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against this provider of post-secondary education, alleging its marketing materials deceived prospective students by falsely inflating job placement statistics at its many campuses around the country. "They manipulated the job placement rates by counting...Full Story