Similar Posts
Students Are Fleeing Four-Year Colleges Amid Skyrocketing Costs, Reckless Spending, Subpar Value
The Department of Education has gone to great lengths to single out, penalize, and publicly smear career colleges, faith-based schools, and other innovative, non-traditional higher education options. These exertions are part of a bigger effort to prop up and maintain…
Department of Education Protects Traditional Higher Ed by Demanding Different Rules for Career Colleges
As students flee four-year colleges and with public confidence in higher education at historic lows, crusading activist bureaucrats seek to prop up and perpetuate traditional universities’ government-mandated market advantages by selectively limiting access to career colleges. As NDC noted in…
Harmful Education Regulations Don’t Help Address the Military Recruiting Crisis
On Veterans Day, we honor the brave Americans who answered the call of duty and served in uniform. But it’s also a reminder of a difficult reality: Our military is experiencing a recruiting crisis. And our educational benefits policies are…
National Defense Committee Statement on Gainful Employment Deadline Extension by Education Department
The National Defense Committee released the following statement after the Department of Education announced an extension of the reporting deadline for its Gainful Employment and Financial Transparency regulations: “The Department of Education has finally demonstrated some common sense by delaying the reporting…
NDC Executive Director Discusses How Biased Regulation Hurts Military and Veteran Students
Last month, National Defense Committee executive director Bob Carey participated in a forum hosted by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE). The event highlighted the negative impacts of the U.S. Department of Education’s selective regulation against career-education institutions and distance learning…
Bob Carey in Stars & Stripes: Healthy SNAP Act ‘Infantilizes’ Service Members
The government’s distrust of military members to make the best decisions for themselves and its pervasive attitude of condescending paternalism contributes to the military’s recruiting and retention crisis. Case in point: The Healthy SNAP Act of 2023, which was introduced…
