For-Profit Schools: Key to Minority Students’ Economic Mobility
Horace Cooper
February 18, 2022
Over the next several weeks, the Department of Education will consider implementing new regulations and requirements that will single out proprietary or “for-profit” colleges.
These sweeping new regulatory changes will drastically alter the ability of the students admitted to these schools to access federal funds, and consequently will unfairly affect hundreds of thousands of students.
These students — Black, white, and brown — will be adversely impacted only because they rely on career colleges and proprietary schools as their primary education choice and Blacks most of all.
This targeted attack takes direct aim at the for-profit schools that many minorities rely on for specialized training and school flexibility.
Access to this type of workforce training —learning skills they’ve chosen after considering alternatives — is essential to communities of color and their future work opportunities.
