Posted on 09/30/2010 7:01:06 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
In what looks like a naked power grab, the Obama Administration is poised to extend its dominion over a higher education establishment that already tilts left. “The Education Department is set to mandate more government control over a private-sector accreditation process that has served higher education well,” Krista Kafer of the Centennial Institute writes. “To what purpose?”
“The new regulations offer little benefit to these institutions, their students, or the taxpayers. Abuses by a few unethical, for-profit colleges do not justify a power grab against 6,000 nonprofit schools.”
“If states politicize their authorization process, colleges may face the choice of compromising their mission or closing their doors.” It should be noted, against this backdrop, that state legislatures already tilt one way politically.
“In just the past three cycles, Democrats have gained a net of 374 state house seats and 68 state senate seats nationwide, moving them from slight minority status following the 2002 cycle—49.8 percent of two-party share of house seats and 49.9 percent of senate seats; the first time Republicans had such an advantage since before the New Deal—to reasonably comfortable majority status in just six years,” Tom Schaller
wrote on August 11, 2009 on fivethirtyeight.com. “Democrats now control 56.8 percent of state house seats and 53.4 percent of state senate seats.”
Meanwhile, the Center for Responsive Politics shows that university donations to Democrats swamp those made to Republicans by lopsided margins. As it turns out, the for-profits may have looked like an easy target but might actually be doing a better job than the non-profits.
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Its all about locking out opportunity unless you pay the college tuition tax starting at graduation. That’s all this is about.
they know they can forcibly extract more in payments form a 21 yr old in this fashion than they EVER will by taxing their income.
I have always suspected that the accreditaiion process is used to avoid price competition between colleges by requiring expensive inputs that do not necessarily improve output.
The Education Department must be defunded and abolished.
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