Catalog for my two-part series about corruption in the student-loan program and for-profit colleges

Celebrating Jon Oberg, David Halperin, Rod Lipscomb, Jim Keen, and Louis Clark

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     In May 2020, I published my tenth book, Money, Politics, and Corruption in U.S. Higher Education:  The Stories of Whistleblowers. 

    I never expected to write a book about blatant corruption in higher education, but I was simply blown away by the whistleblower accounts I first learned about on the front pages of the New York Times. 

     Following up, I met Dr. Jon Oberg, featured in one such story in the Times, page one and above the fold.  His brilliant and courageous work fighting student-loan fraud among lenders led to my interest in whistleblowers at for-profit colleges and, inevitably, to investigative journalist and public-interest attorney David Halperin, along with his detailed exposés of predatory schools that ruin students’ lives.

     Meantime, I also learned about Rod Lipscomb, who, at great personal sacrifice, blew the whistle on ITT Tech, a for-profit college. 

     Then, I saw another front-page article in the New York Times about the whistleblower, Dr. James Keen, a respected professor and veterinarian, who became the object of frightening retaliation at the hands of a land-grant university and a federal agency.

     Further, I could not even consider writing about whistleblowers without asking for the participation of one of the greatest protectors of America’s whistleblowers, Louis Clark, the executive director and CEO of the Government Accountability Project (GAP), whom I asked to write the Introduction to my new book project.  I had known, admired, and respected Louis for nearly forty years.

     These whistleblowing stories, all from the world of higher education, provided the trail to my book about corruption in the federal bureaucracy.  I never would have imagined that there was such waste, fraud, and violations of basic humanity in its institutions.  But there was and still is.

     I was able to gain the full cooperation of these three whistleblowers and two of their greatest champions and to put their stories into one volume as a clarion call to all who believe that the world of higher education is exempt from bad behavior and even flat-out corruption. 

     Here is what I have posted on my MOBOLOGY site:

Catalog

Introduction by Louis Clark of GAP: Part 1

Closing arguments:  Part 2

* December 22, 2024: Jon Oberg is the world’s expert on corruption in the student loan program: Today, he is Mobology’s first guest columnist: "On Eliminating the U.S. Department of Education" (Extra 1)

Notably, all 2020-2021 royalties from the print book and ebook were contributed to the Fund for Constitutional Government, which had helped to support the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), among many of America's greatest public-interest groups.