[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":95},["ShallowReactive",2],{"press-chronicle-of-higher-education-enrollment-scams":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"bannerImage":6,"bannerImageAlt":6,"body":7,"category":81,"date":82,"description":77,"excerpt":6,"extension":83,"externalLink":72,"featured":84,"heroImage":6,"heroImageAlt":6,"meta":85,"navigation":86,"path":87,"seo":88,"slug":89,"socialImage":90,"socialImageAlt":91,"source":92,"stem":93,"__hash__":94},"press\u002Fpress\u002F15.chronicle-of-higher-education-enrollment-scams.md","Chronicle of Higher Education: California community colleges struggle to stop enrollment scams",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":76},"minimark",[10,15,43,50,56,67],[11,12,14],"h2",{"id":13},"a-long-form-look-at-the-bot-problem-in-californias-community-colleges","A long-form look at the bot problem in California's community colleges",[16,17,18,19,23,24,28,29,38,39,42],"p",{},"In a May 2025 cover story by ",[20,21,22],"strong",{},"Beth McMurtrie",", ",[25,26,27],"em",{},"The Chronicle of Higher Education"," documents the operational toll of fraud rings on California faculty and administrators — and identifies ",[20,30,31,32],{},"LightLeapAI ",[33,34,37],"sup",{"className":35},[36],"wordmark-reg","®",", developed by N2N Services, as the fraud-detection platform deployed at ",[20,40,41],{},"42 community colleges"," (most in California) at the time of publication.",[16,44,45,46,49],{},"The piece quotes N2N CEO ",[20,47,48],{},"Kiran Kodithala"," on the inefficiency of manual fraud detection:",[51,52,53],"blockquote",{},[16,54,55],{},"\"Institutions, they're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to do silly things — like, they took out every application and they go to Google Maps to see if that's really a home. It's an extremely cost-prohibitive, extremely inefficient process, and that's not helping.\"",[16,57,58,59,62,63,66],{},"It also cites the company's finding that ",[20,60,61],{},"nearly 36% of more than 735,000 applications"," flowing into 36 LightLeapAI ",[33,64,37],{"className":65},[36],"-protected colleges during the 2024-25 academic year were fraudulent — after CCCApply's own screening.",[16,68,69],{},[70,71,75],"a",{"href":72,"rel":73},"https:\u002F\u002Fhub.miracosta.edu\u002Fnews\u002Findex.aspx?id=4636",[74],"nofollow","Read the Chronicle piece (republished by MiraCosta College)",{"title":77,"searchDepth":78,"depth":78,"links":79},"",2,[80],{"id":13,"depth":78,"text":14},"In the Press","2025-05-05","md",false,{},true,"\u002Fpress\u002Fchronicle-of-higher-education-enrollment-scams",{"title":5,"description":77},"chronicle-of-higher-education-enrollment-scams","\u002Fimages\u002Fog\u002Fpress\u002Fog-press-edu-media.jpg","A journalist's workspace — open laptop with a brand-gradient dashboard glow, a reporter's notebook with hand-drawn arrows — Chronicle-style long-form investigative reporting.","Chronicle of Higher Education","press\u002F15.chronicle-of-higher-education-enrollment-scams","yr1KowS0qU03dRyZGLmhLQOLakwt5p1EJWwtMF1C4fw",1784545937606]