The University of Phoenix has pushed back against a finding from a May audit by the California State Approving Agency for Veterans Education (CSAAVE) about the for-profit chain's San Diego campus. And the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs backed Phoenix's claims on Friday.
The controversy began after the Center for Investigative Reporting, a California-based news organization, obtained and released a report from the agency about its site visit to the campus.
While the report was positive overall, it alleged that seven bachelor's and master's programs at the campus had run afoul of a federal requirement preventing veterans from being 85 percent or more of a program's enrollment. The idea behind the decades-old rule is to introduce a free-market element to programs by requiring that they are able to attract students whose educations are not heavily subsidized with V.A. grants.
"We informed them that with the exception of the 85/15 enrollment ratio issue, the survey was excellent," according to the report, which was submitted in June. "The University of Phoenix representatives were told not to enroll any additional students in the programs that violate the 85/15 ratio."
Phoenix, however, challenged the agency's figures. The university claims only one of the programs went beyond the limit on veterans.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/04/u-phoenix-wins-push-corrected-numbers-veterans-enrollment-san-diego-campus