The Feds Aren’t Doing Enough to Investigate Problem Colleges

by Adam Goldstein Incomplete written guidelines and penalties that had not been updated since 2016. Significant turnover and reductions among staff. Changing agency priorities and department probes put “on hold.” Over the past six years, these problems have stifled the U.S. Department of Education’s investigations team that is supposed to probe colleges that misrepresent themselves to the public, according to a recent report by a government watchdog, the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Much of the period studied was during the Trump administration. As a result of misrepresentation by colleges, students may have trouble graduating, paying back their loans, or finding a […]