Restoring Equal Treatment for For-Profit Colleges: The Center for Excellence in Higher Education as a Case Study
Adam Kissel
August 27, 2025
Summary
Anti-market advocates have proved themselves allergic to “profit,” especially when it comes to education. They have harmed millions of students by forcing successful colleges to close. They have also forced extreme compliance measures onto thousands of fully innocent colleges, costing huge sums and forcing tuition to spiral upward. Meanwhile, the American taxpayer continues to subsidize tens or hundreds of thousands of students obtaining worthless degrees at colleges that are left unscrutinized simply because they are technically nonprofit or public. The saga of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education is a case study in government animus and abuse that must never be repeated.
