The Baker College promise

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The Nonprofit College That Spends More on Marketing Than Financial Aid <[link removed]> Baker College promises students a better life. But few ever graduate, and even those who do often leave with crushing debt and useless degrees. No one — not the board, nor the accreditors, nor the federal government — has intervened. by Anna Clark, ProPublica, and David Jesse, Detroit Free Press

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