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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…
Carey to Negotiated Rulemaking: Student Loan Forgiveness Hurts Veterans, Military Members
Rule changes proposed by the Biden Administration to expand the Department of Education’s authority to discharge student loan debt presents a “dangerous moral hazard” and would exacerbate the military’s recruiting and retention crisis, NDC executive director Bob Carey told negotiators…
Preparing Students for Success after College
We have written a lot about the Department of Education’s efforts to paint career colleges as a scam that saddles veterans with debt and leaves them unprepared for life after a degree. In reality, career colleges offer non-traditional students a…
NDC Calls on Dept. of Ed to Investigate Appointment to Negotiated Rulemaking Committees
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today the National Defense Committee (NDC) calls for diverse, unbiased representation for veterans and U.S. military members in the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking. “The Department’s negotiated rulemaking has immense,…
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…
ICYMI: You Can Die for Your Country, But You Can’t Go to a Career College
In the Biden Administration’s effort to prop up failing conventional four-year colleges and universities, the Department of Education has put “mountains of red tape between veterans and their college choices,” Bob Carey wrote in RealClear Education last fall. Military service…