For-profit Colleges Brace for Reckoning in Biden Era

After years of deregulation by the Trump administration, for-profit colleges are bracing for a major reckoning as consumer advocates and lawmakers pressure the Biden administration to take action.

“For four years under President Trump and Secretary DeVos, the for-profit college industry had an outsized voice and influence at the Department of Education,” Toby Merrill, director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School, told Yahoo Finance. “The Trump administration repeatedly sided with this predatory industry and against the very students our government is supposed to serve. That must end.”

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