Several Months After it Was Announced That GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY Was Being Fined $37.7 Million dollars by the Federal Government For Allegations They Misled Students About the Full Costs of Some of Their Programs, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is Now Suing GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY for “Deceptive and Abusive Telemarketing Practices.”
Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, says if these allegations are true, students who have lost money because of the lack of Integrity of Grand Canyon University need to file a class action lawsuit or an individual lawsuit to get their money back and keep their degrees. Whyte says further if these allegations are true regarding this Christian University–Grand Canyon University–this is a shame before God and shows the University is not concerned about the students but is more concerned about the money.
Months after it was announced that Grand Canyon University (GCU), the country’s largest Christian university, was being fined $37.7 million by the federal government for allegations that they misled students about the full costs of some of their programs, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has also announced they’re suing the 120,000-student school for “deception.”
According to a recent notice on their website, the FTC is suing GCU, Grand Canyon Education (GCE) and GCU president Brain Mueller for “deceiving prospective doctoral students about the cost and course requirements of its doctoral programs and about being a nonprofit” while also engaging in “deceptive and abusive telemarketing practices.”
For the former, the FTC says that some of GCU’s doctoral programs advertise one price to finish, when in reality, 98% of students require additional “continuation courses” to complete, adding thousands of dollars to the cost of their program. They also say that “the defendants also used abusive telemarketing calls to try to boost enrollment at GC” and that “GCE advertised on websites and social media urging prospective students to submit their contact information on digital forms. GCE telemarketers then used the information to illegally contact people who have specifically requested not to be called, as well as people on the National Do Not Call Registry. GCE has also made illegal calls to numbers it purchased from lead generators.
