It’s very odd that NY State allowed Amity to open this “Harrow” when they weren’t able to open schools in Massachusetts. The whole for-profit element would give me pause, especially with the allegations of fraud:
The MA Attorney General said that, “Students who invested their time and hard-earned money into this school deserve the education they were promised by [the school], not [to be] handed over to an unlicensed foreign corporation with no history of teaching students in the United States."
In an interview with the national public radio show The Takeaway, [Healey expressed concerns] about Amity’s “track record,” specifically noting that “Amity was founded by an individual who was charged with fraud many, many years ago.” The [Associated Press reported] in October that Amity’s founding president, Ashok Chauhan, the father of the [two current chancellors], Aseem and Atul Chauhan, was charged with fraud in the 1990s in Germany, where he ran a group of companies, but was never extradited from India. A spokeswoman for Germany’s Interior Ministry, which includes the federal police, declined to comment when contacted by Inside Higher Ed, saying the ministry does not comment on individual cases.