Commentary: Dick Durbin: Proposed Biden rules would protect students from debt, improve college programs
by Dick Durbin, Chicago Tribune
May 26, 2023
3 minutes
As a first-generation college student, Victoria Vences enrolled in the criminal justice program at Westwood College in 2007 believing it would help her land a job as a probation officer or with the immigration service. After three years of juggling a full-time job while being a full-time student, Victoria started applying for law enforcement jobs, showing potential employers her certificate from Westwood.
They told her that, unfortunately, the certificate was essentially worthless. By the
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