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From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

For-Profit Group's Western Spoof Takes Shots at Community Colleges and For-Profits
By Goldie Blumenstyk

excerpt:

A video clip featuring the head of the major association of for-profit colleges, Harris N. Miller, dressed like the character Woody from Toy Story and cracking jokes that make fun of community colleges and his member colleges' own advertising messages, was live on YouTube for the past several days before it was abruptly taken down on Monday.

Not everyone appreciated the humor....

...Set to twangy Western music, the clip includes one scene of a cap-gun-toting Mr. Miller, taking a mocking jab at the make-up artist who had misapplied his pancake in an earlier scene.

"That make-up girl probably went to community college," he says. "She doesn't even know what she's doing."

..."It is deeply troubling that the president of a higher-education association would see it as appropriate to publicly insult community-college students as Harris Miller does in this video," said Craig P. Smith, deputy director for higher education at the American Federation of Teachers, who was among those who circulated the video on Twitter. "If Miller wishes to demonstrate that the sector he represents has integrity and puts students first, this video clearly sends the wrong message."

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