FILE: Tim Larson is the executive director of the Connecticut Office of Higher Education. Imagine paying money and spending time studying to become a nurse — only to find out your school is closing before you get the degree and that a lot of your class credits won’t count. That’s the situation nearly 900 students at the for-profit Stone Academy find themselves in. The abrupt closure on Feb. 15 of three Stone Academy campuses in Connecticut has prompted Attorney General William Tong to launch an investigation into the nursing school. The state Office of Higher Education (OHE) is taking control of student records at Stone Academy. The office has been evaluating the transcripts of all students affected by Stone Academy’s closure to help those students move forward, said Timothy Larson, executive director of the Office of Higher Education. "When we did our evaluation, it was determined that about 20% of the faculty was not trained appropriately to teach these courses," Larson said. "And several of the students were involved in what we would refer to as an invalid clinical experience which was done on campus, not at a medical facility." Larson said the OHE is working with an auditor […]
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