Why the Electoral College Ruins Democracy

2016-11-09T23:32:05.602Z

All men are created equal, but their votes sure aren't. Adam explains how location impacts your voting power.

Key & Peele: Obama - The College Years

2012-11-12T21:49:40.370Z

Key & Peele: Obama - The College Years

The Trouble with the Electoral College

2012-10-01T20:00:40.999Z

The problem with the Electoral College in the modern world. **T-Shirts now for sale!** Help support making more videos: http://goo.gl/1Wlnd More information ...

College, Inc.

2012-06-19T00:58:45.942Z

How Wall Street and a new breed of for-profit universities are transforming the way we think about college in America.

Even in lean times, the $400 billion business of higher education is booming. Nowhere is this more true than in one of the fastest-growing -- and most controversial -- sectors of the industry: for-profit colleges and universities that cater to non-traditional students, often confer degrees over the Internet, and, along the way, successfully capture billions of federal financial aid dollars.

In College, Inc., correspondent Martin Smith investigates the promise and explosive growth of the for-profit higher education industry. Through interviews with school executives, government officials, admissions counselors, former students and industry observers, the film explores the tension between the industry -- which says it's helping an underserved student population obtain a quality education and marketable job skills -- and critics who charge the for-profits with churning out worthless degrees that leave students with a mountain of debt.

At the center of it all stands a vulnerable population of potential students, often working adults eager for a university degree to move up the career ladder. FRONTLINE talks to a former staffer at a California-based for-profit university who says she was under pressure to sign up growing numbers of new students. "I didn't realize just how many students we were expected to recruit," says the former enrollment counselor. "They used to tell us, you know, 'Dig deep. Get to their pain. Get to what's bothering them. So, that way, you can convince them that a college degree is going to solve all their problems.'"

Graduates of another for-profit school -- a college nursing program in California -- tell FRONTLINE that they received their diplomas without ever setting foot in a hospital. Graduates at other for-profit schools report being unable to find a job, or make their student loan payments, because their degree was perceived to be of little worth by prospective employers. One woman who enrolled in a for-profit doctorate program in Dallas later learned that the school never acquired the proper accreditation she would need to get the job she trained for. She is now sinking in over $200,000 in student debt.

Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/etc/synopsis.html#ixzz1yCJMTETO

Mike Posner Live @ Duke w/ Big Sean

2009-10-07T19:17:29.687Z

Mike Posner & Big Sean are killing their performance at Duke University's Last Day of Classes (LDOC) celebration when the sound guys cut their sound because they've gone over time. Mike continues to rock the crowd with no mic. The sound guys then plays music to drown out the crowd.

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