This disgusts me. Found this on my local Craiglist in the "healthcare" jobs section.
If you are looking to move forward in your nursing career, The College Network® can help. We partner with leading universities to provide online degree programs for busy nurses. Indiana State University is rated one of the best colleges in the Midwest by The Princeton Review and offers the nation's ONLY Online LPN/LVN-to-BSN. Get started today to increase your pay, secure your position, and earn more respect by earning your RN License or your BSN. We also offer RN to BSN/MSN, MS programs.
THEY offer RN to BSN/MSN programs? How is that legal to make that claim?
TCN makes me angry! The company preys on people who just want to further their education. In the article linked by grandpaj, the supporting documents to the article are very telling! Especially the one detailing about one month of calls from upset students to Excelsior College, because those students had no idea that TCN was not afiliated with EC. People are wasting thousands of dollars! And on some of the EC-related Facebook groups, people who signed up with TCN complain that TCN is slow to send them checks that are supposed to cover testing fees, sometimes delayed by weeks and months - and these are people who have paid TCN on time! It's just horrible.
I was one of those who was duped by TCN. It's embarrassing and I hate admitting it. I paid off my debt and am now back in school at a local CC. TCN was an expensive lesson to learn. Now I question everything and everyone.
Lunah, MSN, RN
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TCN makes me angry! The company preys on people who just want to further their education. In the article linked by grandpaj, the supporting documents to the article are very telling! Especially the one detailing about one month of calls from upset students to Excelsior College, because those students had no idea that TCN was not afiliated with EC. People are wasting thousands of dollars! And on some of the EC-related Facebook groups, people who signed up with TCN complain that TCN is slow to send them checks that are supposed to cover testing fees, sometimes delayed by weeks and months - and these are people who have paid TCN on time! It's just horrible.