Welcome back to Higher Ed on the Hill where we break down the top issues driving higher education policy. Up to bat: Congress takes on Biden’s Gainful Employment Rule.

Here’s what you need to know:

• As we have covered, the proposed Gainful Employment Rule would not apply to degrees from traditional public or expensive four-year universities, where students often rack up six figures in debt.
• Career colleges would be hit the hardest by GER, despite the fact they are educating aspiring health care workers, law enforcement officers, educators, and more. Most alarmingly, if Biden’s rule moves forward, some 700,000 students would lose access to over 1,700 programs. 
• In September, CASE along with a dozen over organizations sent a letter to Chairman Aderholt, urging him to include amendment language that prohibits funding for GER.
• We’re hearing that members on the House committee are seriously considering a Congressional Review Act challenge to block Biden’s “1,000 page” rule, a move we among many others would applaud!

To learn more about the Gainful Employment Rule, have a look at our commentary here.

Read the full Washington Examiner Editorial Board opinion here.

NEW: Biden Is Trying to Kill Higher Education Alternatives. Congress Can Stop Him, Washington Examiner — “If the Biden [Gainful Employment] regulation were applied to traditional universities, their undergraduate offerings would account for nearly 80% of all “failing” programs in the nation, and if post-graduate degree-seekers weren’t excluded, traditional schools would account for 90%. Yet while Biden keeps trying unconstitutionally to forgive student debt at not-for-profit colleges offering useless courses that are, in essence, left-wing political indoctrination, he is punishing for-profit schools for supposedly luring students into debt. The double standard is stunning.”

CASE in the News: Biden Wants to Pick and Choose Who Gets to Go to College — “Hundreds of institutions of higher education exist outside of the elite left-wing education establishment, and they have been in the crosshairs of radical Department of Education bureaucrats since the Obama administration. These career-oriented, online, and for-profit colleges serve hundreds of thousands of students each year, mostly adult learners, veterans, working parents, active military personnel, and minorities. Unfortunately, their dreams of achieving a college degree and more career opportunities are being crushed by an administration putting ideology above opportunity.”

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