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FIRST ON FOX: Arizona's education section is pushing backmost against the U.S. Department of Education's (DOE) menace to unopen down Grand Canyon University, calling it "the latest occurrence of harassment" against the schoolhouse by the national government.
"It is unwarranted and unjust," Arizona authorities Superintendent Tom Horne told Fox News Digital Friday. "In the U.S., anyone accused of wrongdoing is presumed guiltless and entitled to their time successful court. Secretary Cardona’s menace is contrary to those law guarantees and unworthy of his position."
Horne said helium wrote to DOE Secretary Miguel Cardona past twelvemonth astir GCU's "excellent" estimation and urged him to beryllium down with GCU enactment to hash retired their issues.
"That is simply a tenable request, but, truthful far, helium has chosen to beryllium unreasonable," Horne said.
LARGEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY IN THE NATION ALLEGES IT'S BEING UNJUSTLY TARGETED BY FEDERAL AGENCIES
The president of Grand Canyon University told FOX News Digital the assemblage is being targeted by the Department of Education. (Fox News)
The Biden medication is trying to instrumentality down the largest Christian assemblage implicit "ideological" differences contempt the schoolhouse being audited respective times by abstracted authorities entities, according to the university's president.
"We are very, precise universally loved and respected successful the authorities of Arizona connected some sides of the aisle," Grand Canyon University (GCU) President Brian Mueller told Fox News Digital Thursday. "This happening is perfectly not governmental for us. There's a tiny radical of radical successful Washington, D.C., successful the Department of Education and the Federal Trade Commission, but nary of the allegations that they're lobbing are corroborated immoderate spot else."
While GCU volition archetypal effort to entreaty wrong DOE, Mueller said helium believes "the Supreme Court volition perceive this."
"There's truthful overmuch astatine involvement here," helium said.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona accuses GCU of preying connected students. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
GCU’s accrediting body, the Higher Learning Commission, besides described GCU’s doctoral disclosures arsenic "robust and thorough" successful its 2021 broad reappraisal of GCU’s enrollment practices, a GCU enforcement told Fox News Digital. The Arizona State Approving Agency (SAA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which precocious audited GCU specifically to analyse the DOE's claims, besides concluded determination were "no substantiated findings."
"The Arizona SAA did not person immoderate substantiated findings based connected our reappraisal of Grand Canyon University," SAA's missive to GCU successful March stated. "There are nary findings impacting the continued support of Grand Canyon University astatine this time. There are nary follow-up actions required by Grand Canyon University astatine this time."
Mueller's comments travel arsenic DOE Secretary Miguel Cardona vowed to unopen down the schoolhouse for being "a predatory for-profit school" during a House Appropriations Committee proceeding astir cracking down connected GCU and different universities similar it past week.
GCU President Mueller | Education Secretary Cardona (Fox News/Getty)
The DOE claims that GCU "lied to students" and "falsely advertised" the outgo to implicit a doctoral program, which the GCU rejects. In higher education, doctoral programs that see dissertations seldom person a fixed outgo due to the fact that the fig of continuation courses varies for each idiosyncratic student, a GCU spokesperson said successful response.
Cardona made comments during a House Appropriations Committee proceeding astir cracking down connected GCU and different universities similar it April 10.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., asked Cardona however the medication is moving to unopen down GCU, which she called "a predatory for-profit school."
Cardona openly embraced the enforcement methods.
"Last year, your section took enactment against Grand Canyon University, a predatory for-profit college, implicit the school’s nonaccomplishment to accurately disclose its outgo to students, driving up the existent outgo for those students and requiring for them to wage for continuation courses earlier they would graduate. Scam courses added astir $10,000 oregon much to the outgo of acquisition to these kids," DeLauro said.
"Going aft predatory schools preying connected first-generation students," Cardona responded. "They person flashy selling materials, but the merchandise is not worthy the insubstantial it is printed on. Increased enforcement fund to spell aft these folks and ace down. Levied largest good successful past against a schoolhouse that lied astir costs and terminated a schoolhouse from Title IV. We are cracking down not lone to unopen them down, but to nonstop a connection not to prey connected students."
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GCU appealed a $37.7 cardinal good imposed by the section successful November based connected allegations the Arizona-based higher learning instauration misled students astir the outgo of its doctoral programs implicit respective years.
The section said successful an October property merchandise an probe conducted by the bureau of Federal Student Aid (FSA) recovered GCU "lied" to implicit 7,500 erstwhile and existent students astir the outgo of its doctoral programs. The merchandise besides said GCU "falsely advertises" a little outgo for its doctoral programs, adding that astir 98% of students ended up paying much than the advertised cost.
Fox News' Joshua Q. Nelson contributed to this report.
Jamie Joseph is simply a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital sum of the Senate.
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