The University of California system took steps this year to restrict students’ ability to take fully online degree programs, but now an advocacy group is calling for further action: “banning online nondegree courses such as vocational-training boot camps.”
A letter sent this week by the Student Borrower Protection Center and signed by five University of California faculty members alleges that “these online certificate programs rarely leave students with the skills necessary to earn enough to pay off the debts they accrue in pursuit of their education.”
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