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Grand Canyon Schooling (NASDAQ:LOPE) and the president of Grand Canyon College have been sued by the Federal Commerce Fee for misleading promoting, violating the company’s telemarketing gross sales rule, and for falsely advertising the college as a nonprofit entity.
In response to the complaint filed by the FTC in federal courtroom, Grand Canyon Schooling provided “accelerated” doctoral applications which the college claims require solely 20 programs for completion.
Actually, via “deceptive statements” and “buried” disclaimers, the college requires nearly all doctoral college students to take “continuation programs” that add 1000’s of {dollars} to the price of this system. The criticism alleges that a lot of the college students that enroll within the doctoral applications at GCU by no means obtain the diploma due to further prices and time.
The FTC additionally accuses the college of partaking in “misleading” promoting by portraying itself as a nonprofit college, and of college President Brian Mueller of formulating a plan to switch the title and a number of the property of the college to a brand new company with the intention of working as a for-profit entity.
Lastly, the criticism additionally states that in an effort to spice up enrollment, Grand Canyon used info obtained from social media websites to contact potential college students with out their permission or to people on the Nationwide Do Not Name Registry. Grand Canyon Schooling (LOPE) can be accused of constructing unlawful calls to numbers it bought from lead turbines.
The FTC has requested the courtroom to enter a everlasting injunction in opposition to Grand Canyon Schooling to stop future violation and award financial and different reduction the courtroom determines in its judgment