A new report highlights the U.S. Department of Education’s disparity towards Christian and career colleges through an “obscure agency” created by former President Barack Obama and revived under President Joe Biden.
The American Principles Project’s (APP) report revealed that “nearly 70 percent of penalties imposed by the Office of Enforcement have been against Christian institutions and career colleges, even though these schools represent less than 10 percent of college students.”
It has become obvious that diversity, equity, and inclusion were just useful words to give Obama and Biden cover for their real agenda.
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The conclusion of the study leads us to see that Biden and Obama's "Enforcement Agency" is nothing more than a front for a crusade against Christianity and its institutions.
The report notes that the election was "an enormous win for the American people. It’s clear that Trump’s vision for freedom, populism, and patriotism inspired tens of millions of voters from all backgrounds, including those from working-class communities."
The report underscores that "While it is safe to say that President Trump, who has a great deal of respect for Christians, will not continue the Biden Administration’s lawfare and targeted persecution of Christian institutions, Congress must enact reforms to the Department of Education to prevent it from arbitrarily targeting certain schools because they refuse to adopt left-wing woke orthodoxy and indoctrinate their students."
An overview of the study:
After a prolonged attack on career colleges, the Biden-Harris Department of Education has turned its aggressive scrutinize-and-penalize campaign against Christian students and the colleges and universities that serve them.
*The Department of Education’s assault on Christian colleges is being carried out by its Office of Enforcement—an obscure agency created under President Obama and resurrected by President Biden.
*This secretive office’s mission is to shut down colleges and universities that don’t align with the Administration’s woke agenda.
Nearly 70 percent of penalties imposed by the Office of Enforcement have been against Christian institutions and career colleges, even though these schools represent less than 10 percent of college students.
Within the last year the Biden-Harris Department of Education imposed record fines against two of the nation’s most prominent Christian universities—Grand Canyon University ($37.7 million) and Liberty University ($14 million). These fines total more than all other penalties assessed by the Department of Education over the past seven years.
President Biden increased the Office of Enforcement’s budget by nearly 600 percent last year—and it had requested another almost 230 percent raise this year— signaling the Department of Education’s plans to escalate its attacks further had Trump not been elected.
Those who conducted and published the report show that "This campaign, which has been advanced under the auspices of protecting students from 'predatory' colleges and universities, threatens to erode traditional family values from higher education and financially squeeze and shut down schools that align with Christian values and beliefs."
Three ways the Office of Enforcement targets Christian colleges while ignoring failing conventional universities.
- IMPOSE MASSIVE PENALTIES AGAINST LEADING INSTITUTIONS
- HARASS SCHOOLS OPERATING IN GOOD FAITH WITH SCRUTINIZE-AND-FINE INVESTIGATIONS
- CUT OFF OR THREATEN COLLEGES’ AND UNIVERSITIES’ ACCESS TO TITLE IV FUNDING
How they have targeted the largest Christian university in the United States
Christian colleges and universities have been targeted, harassed, and, in some cases, put out of business by this weaponization of the Department of Education’s Enforcement Office.
At least 12 Christian colleges and universities have been the target of excessive penalties from the Office of Enforcement or banned from receiving federal student aid. By comparison, no Ivy League school has been the recipient of punitive action by the Office of Enforcement.
Perhaps the most high-profile example of this egregious penalization is the Department of Education’s recent actions against Grand Canyon University (GCU), the nation’s largest Christian university.
In October 2023, the Department of Education assessed a record $37.7 million fine against GCU despite not having completed written procedures for selecting or investigating colleges nor having updated its penalty procedures.
The penalty—which officials called the “largest of its kind” —was imposed for allegedly “not fully informing” students about the costs of GCU’s doctoral programs on its website. Doctoral students represent less than five percent of the school’s student body.
GCU “categorically” denied the allegations, noting that an independent accreditor described the school’s marketing and recruitment materials as “clear and transparent.” The accreditor specifically said of GCU’s doctoral program materials: “The information and resources provided are robust and thorough, providing prospective students a clear picture of their academic and financial path toward a degree at GCU.”
The same month, the Wall Street Journal called the action against GCU "a hit job."
The other "hit jobs" follow similar patterns: Find a perceived weakness or error and exploit it.
GCU continues to appeal the Department of Education’s decision and has refused to pay the fine. “It doesn’t matter whether the fine’s $37 million or $1 — we’re not paying it,” the school’s president told the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) earlier this year.
Remember, nearly 70% of all penalties are against Christian schools. Only months after its penalty against GCU, the Office of Enforcement announced an equally outrageous $14 million penalty against Liberty University, the second-largest Christian university in the country.
The alleged violations stem from a so-called failure to comply with crime-reporting requirements under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or “Clery Act.”
Takeaway
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.