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Brooks students express frustration
By John Scheibe, jscheibe@VenturaCountyStar.com
July 29, 2005
Brooks Institute of Photography students met with the school's president Thursday afternoon at the Ventura campus and demanded that he be more upfront with them about a threat by state regulators to close the famed school.
"You need to level with us and stop treating us like children," one student told Brooks President Greg Strick after he told some 350 students he was sad that the report by state regulators might make them less focused on their studies.
Inspectors from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education alleged in a report released earlier this month that Brooks' recruiters have consistently lied to prospective students about the type of jobs they could expect to get after graduation as well as the amount they would be paid.
Regulators say recruiters told students they could expect to earn $100,000 or more during their first year out of school. In fact, graduates earn an average of about $26,000 and leave the school owing $70,000 or more in loans, according to the report.
The bureau is threatening to shut down the for-profit school within two years unless it addresses these and other problems.
The school is owned by Career Education Corp., an Illinois-based company that has been the subject of investigations by the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Other than graduating from Brooks in in 1969 (when it was still owned by the Brooks family), I have no connection with the school.
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