Counterfeit Ed

This investigative project explores the abuses of for-profit colleges in New York City in the context of what federal, state and city bodies have done to regulate these schools. We focused on two for-profits in the city, ASA College and TCI College, whose practices typify the criticisms of for-profit schools: targeting low-income people of color, funding the school from mostly federal student loans and issuing pricey degrees that yield few field-specific jobs

Estimating soil/sediment partition coefficients for organic compounds by high performance reverse phase liquid chromatography

High performance reverse phase liquid chromatography (HPRPLC) retention parameters were correlated to organic-carbon-normalized partition coefficient (Koc) values for sorption of various uncharged organic substances onto sediments and soils in an attempt to devise a model for predicting sorption behavior. The results reveal a relationship between the logarithm of HPRPLC retention time and log Koc that appears to provide a reasonable means for estimating partitioning properties from HPRPLC data. The technique was compared to methods which utilize octanol/water partition coefficients (Kow) and aqueous solubilities as surrogate predictors of sorption behavior and was found to yield superior correlations in all cases tested.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/27257/1/0000266.pd