Feds target for-profit, nonprofit schools over difference in ideology, education experts say
Alex Swoyer
July 18, 2024
For-profit and nonprofit schools increasingly find themselves in courtrooms opposing federal regulations that they say the Biden administration is imposing on them due to ideological differences.
Career Education Colleges and Universities, an advocacy group for for-profit schools, has backed litigation challenging the Biden administration’s borrower defense provisions and changes to the Bare Minimum Rule, which critics say could force for-profit and nonprofit schools to shutter.
Nonprofit schools such as Keiser University also find themselves fighting back against the feds in court, saying the Biden administration’s policies seem to be based on a desire for free schooling.
“It appears to be ideological and it also appears to be kind of a belief that higher education should be free as they have advocated,” said Arthur Keiser, chancellor of Keiser University. “Obviously, that creates a problem for private institutions.”
“There is a mix of schools that provide training for the workforce that doesn’t involve degree programs,” said Jed Brinton, senior vice president and general counsel for Career Education Colleges and Universities, which represents for-profit trade schools that train aircraft mechanics, cosmetology professionals and health care workers.
