States and cities are making strident efforts to crack down on for-profit colleges – Market Watch
As the federal government pulls back, states say they need to protect student-loan borrowers
State lawmakers and law enforcement officials, “have really been looking to see how they can step up and make sure that people in their states and their constituents are protected from predatory institutions,” she said.
But to representatives of the for-profit college industry these measures take the state’s role in higher education governance too far.
As efforts to regulate for-profit colleges have found a less receptive ear in Washington under the Trump administration, advocates are bringing their “war on the sector” to the state level, said Steve Gunderson, the president of Career Education Colleges and Universities, a for-profit college trade group.
It’s appropriate for the state licensing agency to help students who have been the victims of fraud, said Steve Gunderson, the president of Career Education Colleges and Universities, a for-profit college trade group. But some of these activist initiatives are moving away “from the appropriate definition of a state licensing agency,” he added.
Here’s a look at some of what state and local lawmakers are proposing: