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Thursday, September 13, 2018
Purdue Global Demands Students Waive Right to Sue - Greg Toppo, Inside Higher Ed
The details are laid out in documents obtained via a records request to the U.S. Department of Education by the Century Foundation, which said the requirements make Purdue University Global “perhaps the first and only public institution to strip students of their legal rights.” The Century Foundation is well-known for challenging for-profit colleges' policies. In a statement, Tim Doty, a Purdue spokesperson, said Purdue Global "does have an arbitration agreement that it inherited from Kaplan. Whether it continues to employ this policy is ultimately up to the Purdue Board of Trustees which has complete control over Purdue Global, and has the final say as to which policies it retains, and which it alters.
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/08/29/purdue-global-demands-students-waive-right-sue