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May 01, 2010 20:56

"Benson Rollins wants a college degree. The unemployed high school dropout who attends Alcoholics Anonymous and has been homeless for 10 months is being courted by the University of Phoenix. Two of its recruiters got themselves invited to a Cleveland shelter last October and pitched the advantages of going to the country's largest for-profit college to 70 destitute men."

Full story here: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177064219731.htm

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