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The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming in the Bay Area..
Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal...
Together, they envisioned a setup through which Dominican students could take computer science classes and earn a minor and Make School students could take a few classes from Dominican faculty and earn a bachelors in applied computer science in only two years...
Make Schools downfall, as documented by aStudent Borrower Protection Center report provided to The Hechinger Report, should sound alarm bells about partnerships like this, advocates for students warn...
Nevertheless, later that year, it joined forces with Dominican, a nonprofit college in San Rafael, California.At the time, college leaders were unaware that Make School was operating as an unapproved educational institution, a spokesperson from Dominican says..
