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Carey to Neg-Reg Comm.: Don’t Limit Veterans’, Military Members’ Use of Earned Education Benefits
In public comment before the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking committee on Program Integrity and Institutional Quality today, NDC executive director Bob Carey encouraged the committee to reject burdensome regulations that unfairly penalize career colleges and non-traditional universities. One of…
Military & Veteran Students Choose Higher Education Options that Work for Them
Military members and veterans aren’t typical college students. They are usually older than their classmates, often times have families, are looking to get the skills they need for their next jobs, and are also balancing the integration from military service…
Op-Ed: Regulators’ Disdain for Alternative Higher Education Options Hurts Veterans
Military members’ and veterans’ education benefits are not grants from the federal government; they are earned benefit payments in exchange for services rendered, National Defense Committee executive director Bob Carey writes in the Odgen Standard-Examiner. But the U.S. Department of…
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…
Negotiated Rulemaking Should Retire Gainful Employment Rule
Last week the U.S. Department of Education kicked off the AHEAD negotiated rulemaking, which is responsible for creating and implementing new accountability measures. Negotiators should repeal the Gainful Employment Rule, which discriminates against post-secondary schools favored by the military, veterans…
Military & Veterans Coalition Joins Call for Diverse Representation on Dept. of Ed Neg-Reg Committees
Led by the National Defense Committee, a coalition of military and veterans’ organizations called on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona today to investigate “disproportionate representation” on the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking committees. Five organizations representing a broad range of military…
