Selling False Hope: Business 'Ethics'

I recently received an email from someone trying to better herself and her family through education. She seemed to be in desperate economic straits. Working on her Associate's degree and in need of advice on how to acquire the necessary resources to do her work online, she ostensibly needed a laptop computer. In her email she mentioned that she was taking course work online from Westwood College. Curious, I Googled Westwood and immediately found extensive references to unethical practices in the Ripoff Report. See this link for specific allegations of unethical or perhaps even fraudulent practices.

It sickens me that such places exist. Graduates of Westwood can expect to be in tens of thousands of dollars of debt, and with no marketable degree. To take advantage of others' desperation and desire to better themselves is morally obscene.