The Daily Signal By Adam Kissel
It is rare to see a university publicly complain about regulatory harassment, but Grand Canyon University has good reasons to do so.
One of the largest universities in the country, GCU has 25,800 students in person and 92,000 online. It’s a Christian university, but in the eyes of intolerant federal regulators, its brief period as a for-profit university is GCU’s unforgivable sin—one that poses an existential threat to the university. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education has just announced a whopping $38 million fine that GCU is credibly disputing.
Grand Canyon University was a nonprofit institution from 1949 to 2004, then saved itself from possible bankruptcy by converting to for-profit status until 2018, when it returned to nonprofit status. Well, everyone accepted GCU’s return to nonprofit status except the U.S. Department of Education, which has been on a long-term vendetta against profit in education and has preferred to indulge its socialist tendencies…
