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Westwood College campuses in Fort Worth, Houston and Dallas are under fire again, with a state regulatory agency saying the for-profit schools may lose their licenses after concerns about potentially deceptive and fraudulent practices.The action follows an undercover federal investigation this summer at Westwood and 14 other for-profit colleges. The investigation, by the Government Accountability Office, found that all 15 made deceptive or questionable statements about graduation rates, guaranteed jobs after graduation or exaggerated potential earnings. Four of the colleges encouraged fraudulent practices, such as having students submit false information about their financial status, the watchdog agency reported.
The report said a Westwood representative in Texas coached an undercover investigator to not report $250,000 in savings to qualify for federal aid. Posing as a prospective student, the investigator indicated that the $68,000 cost of the program was affordable. But the financial aid officer said it was not the government's business how much money the applicant had in the bank. "The fraud would have made the undercover applicant eligible for more than $2,000 in grants a year," the GAO reported.
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