Closed colleges are rising from the dead online
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
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USA TODAY Investigative Education Reporter Chris Quintana explains how and why zombie colleges are popping up online.
President Joe Biden vows to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces make a major Rafah invasion.
There's a new COVID-19 variant called FLiRT.
USA TODAY Wellness Reporter Charles Trepany explains why rage rituals are resonating with women.
The Olympic flame arrives in Marseille.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday May 9th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.0 | excerpt. Today zombie colleges are popping up online, plus the latest on ceasefire negotiations in Cairo, |
| 0:29.7 | and we learn about rage rituals. |
| 0:36.6 | Closed colleges are rising from the dead online. I spoke with USA Today, |
| 0:37.9 | Investigative Education reporter Chris Quintana |
| 0:40.9 | to learn more about zombie colleges. |
| 0:43.7 | Chris, thanks for dropping on. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:46.8 | So Chris, fascinating story here. |
| 0:48.4 | Tell us about these zombie colleges whose names have been resurrected on the web. |
| 0:53.2 | This one was really unusual because it first started with a tip about Stratford University. |
| 0:58.5 | That was a university that closed back in 2022 and I know that because I wrote about it when it closed and so already |
| 1:05.4 | there were like alarm bells going off when these former Stratford |
| 1:08.4 | University students reached out to me and said hey it looks like our |
| 1:11.8 | university is open still. |
| 1:13.8 | As I started to poke around a little bit |
| 1:15.9 | and that university's website, |
| 1:17.4 | I found this collection of other closed universities |
| 1:22.0 | that now have active websites. |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah, and Chris, what's the motive for the presumed motive behind creating these fake websites? |
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