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As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond. (voiceofsandiego.org)
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Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern faculty feel their leaders haven’t done enough to curb the crisis.

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[–] hDGGgrLpg8nEucjxWnJz@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make education free. No grants required. Problem solved.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

No, even if tuition and books are free, financial aid still needs to help full time students have food to eat and have a place to live and ordinary day to day expenses. In many places, the aid on room and board is much more money than aid on tuition and fees.

And community colleges tend not to have their own dorms or anything like that, so it comes in the form of a monthly payment that helps the student pay their rent. That's an incentive for fraud.