Profits at any cost erode ethics and standards in education.

Sylvia, this is thoughtful, thorough, and an ideal guide to ethical behavior in education at all levels.  Your humble servant here, however, wants to add a perspective to this.  It is this.  Today, for-profit universities now exist; your humble servant here has worked for one for six years now.  What drives the agenda in the final analysis is the need to make a profit, make money; this means keep students enrolled at all costs.  The result is your professor here literally had to apologize to a student for asking her to follow directions.  The student threatened to quit; the result was my apologizing for asking her to follow directions.  Profits trumped standards.  Profits trumped ethical behavior.  As American philosopher A.J. Nock observed, Americans have a special gift for turning everything into a racket.  For-profit universities are an example.  For the record, Concordia is not, thankfully, for-profit.  Amen. Amen. Amen. Dr. Rux