For Profit - Part 1: The Pain Funnel

Campus Files

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Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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For the last 30 years, a group of schools have targeted America's most vulnerable students, saddling them with mountains of debt and a poor education, all for the sake of profit. Mike DiGiacomo fell victim to two of these schools. For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.8	tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org
0:29.3	Kate's just off to work after sleeping in the best bed in the business and my word doesn't she look ready for anything? Something about her smile
0:39.0	is just brighter. Her eyes seem glintier and she just feels so much more katier. Of
0:46.6	course it's no surprise really because last night she slept at Premier Inn and she got up to
0:51.4	15% off with Business Booker. Get better sleep for your money premier in rest easy
0:57.8	teas and c's apply kept telling her how i was insecure financially she said you're not going to have to
1:09.2	worry trust me she said you just have to accept.
1:12.9	I told her how it was advertised to me as number one.
1:16.1	She said that that was a lie on the website
1:18.6	and that almost all the students are let in.
1:22.0	That's Evan.
1:23.3	You heard from him a few weeks ago
1:25.1	when he shared his experience with USC's online social work
1:29.1	program. What Evan and his classmates didn't know at the time was that the program wasn't
1:35.1	actually being run by USC. It was being run by a for-profit company called To You. As we were
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