The Left has been trying to kill for-profit colleges for years, even though they often serve low-income students. Congress has only one more week to act to prevent President Joe Biden from administering a death blow.
At issue is a Department of Education regulation that would deny for-profit institutions federal financial aid if they fail to prove they are helping enough students find “gainful employment.” These burdensome and complicated regulatory requirements would not apply to traditional schools overwhelmingly controlled by left-wing academics. That’s no coincidence, of course. The purported goal of the regulation is to ensure that students don’t get bilked for supposedly worthless degrees and saddled with debt they can’t repay. But if so, why isn’t the regulation being applied to equally worthless degrees, such as in gender studies, from liberal schools?
