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Westwood College said on Monday that it has begun a series of reforms aimed at cleaning up questionable, misleading and allegedly fraudulent recruitment practices made public last week in the findings of a Government Accountability Office investigation and in the testimony of a former Westwood recruiter before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. At a Texas campus of the for-profit institution, an undercover GAO investigator was encouraged to falsify information on his financial aid form to become eligible for Pell Grants.
The college, based in Denver, said it will implement a new recruiter pay structure on Aug. 21 that will no longer reward employees for reaching enrollment targets and will instead pay them a fixed salary. The college said it has begun an internal investigation into admissions and financial aid at all 17 of its campuses and plans to step up its "mystery shopping" efforts and other self-policing mechanisms. Westwood will also implement more stringent admissions standards.
