PROTECT
CHRISTIAN COLLEGES
AND STUDENTS!
What You
Need To Know
The average fine against a Christian school for a Clery Act violation was $815,000, compared to $228,571 against public and private institutes.
No Ivy League school has been the recipient of punitive action by the Office of Enforcement.
70 percent of enforcement actions executed by the Biden-Harris administration have targeted faith-based and career colleges.
The Obama-Biden-Harris Office of Enforcement was created with the implicit purpose of advancing the administration’s woke education agenda.
The Enforcement Office’s scrutinize-and-penalize campaign has targeted some of our nation’s largest faith-based institutions, including Grand Canyon University and Liberty University, with unprecedented fines.
Background
THE DEMOCRATS ATTACK ON
CHRISTIAN AND CAREER COLLEGES
President Biden and his Department of Education have waged a years-long assault against Christian and career colleges and their students, while systematically protecting “elite” public and private institutions, foisting woke ideology on reluctant students, and enabling antisemitic, violent protests on campuses across the nation.
They have done so by weaponizing the Department of Education’s Office of Enforcement—an obscure subsidiary of the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) that was created with the implicit intent of shutting down schools and programs that do not conform to the administration’s radical agenda. This campaign, which has been advanced under the auspices of protecting students from “predatory” colleges and universities, threatens to erode traditional family values from higher education and financially squeeze and shut down schools that align with Christians’ values and beliefs.
Created with the implicit purpose of advancing the Biden-Harris administration’s woke agenda, the Department’s Office of Enforcement also targeted two of the nation’s most prominent Christian universities — Grand Canyon University and Liberty University — which resulted in record-level fines worth more than all penalties imposed over the past seven years combined.
This scrutinize-and-penalize campaign against faith-based institutions is not about students’ interests or well-being. It’s part of a concerted effort to snuff out educational choice and pigeon-hole students into schools that promulgate the far left’s “woke,” anti-traditional values agenda. President Biden has sought to repeal religious protections on campuses, publicly smear good-standing faith-affiliated schools, and, now, punish into submission those that do not conform to its progressive ideology. Christian colleges and universities, have grown in popularity because they offer students an education that better aligns with their principles.
This is precisely the reason the Left wants to shut them down.
Thankfully, President Trump has committed to dismantling the Department of Education. However, that does not give these schools any recourse or prevent any future attacks against faith institutions from future administrations. We are calling on Congress to hold an investigatory hearing into the Biden Administration’s discriminatory practices against Christian institutions. Those who actively pursued this anti-Christian agenda must be held accountable; we need to ensure that these excessive retaliatory fines are dropped entirely and not simply transferred to another department for payout. The reaction from lawmakers must be made perfectly clear so that we can ensure our schools are protected from attacks on religious freedom in the future.
THE ENFORCEMENT
OFFICE BY THE NUMBERS
$51 Million
The total amount of fines against religious schools
$815,000
The average fine against a Christian school for a Clery Act violation
75%
Percent of all enforcement fines that went to Christian colleges
48
Actions taken against career / for-profit schools since 2021
13
Actions taken against religious schools since 2021
0
Number of enforcement action taken
Our Report
In November, we released a new report detailing how actions taken by the Biden-Harris Department of Education have unfairly targeted Christian colleges and universities. Drawing on newly obtained data, the report found that nearly 70 percent of the Department’s enforcement actions have involved faith-based and career schools, despite those schools representing less than 10 percent of students nationwide.
Created with the implicit purpose of advancing the Biden-Harris administration’s woke agenda, the Department’s Office of Enforcement also targeted two of the nation’s most prominent Christian universities — Grand Canyon University and Liberty University — which resulted in record-level fines worth more than all penalties imposed over the past seven years combined.
LEADING
CONSERVATIVE
VOICES
House Education Committee Chair Tim Walberg
The days of the Department targeting faith-based and career schools will soon be over.
Senator Josh Hawley
[Regarding the office of enforcement] Not surprising in the least. The last four years have been open season on Christian Americans and other people of faith.
Congressman Andy Biggs
Republicans in Congress also demanded answers from USED’s Office of Inspector General about the ongoing assault on GCU. We were pleased to see our letter get significant attention and support from the heart of the Conservative movement organizations representing millions of proud Christians.
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx
Targeting Christian and career colleges is totally unacceptable and something that Chairwoman Foxx has been greatly concerned about.
Congressman Mark Green
The Biden-Harris administration’s agenda has been in direct contrast to the values of faith-based colleges and universities, and they are being targeted because of it.
Coalition of Members of Congress from Arizona
The Department of Education appears to be using its unchecked power to inappropriately target GCU. This outrageous fine and the ‘ evidence’ supporting ED’s allegations must be investigated.
American Principles Project joint op-ed with Rep. Gosar in the Washington Times
GOP lawmakers demand probe into Biden admin’s ‘biased’ targeting of country’s largest Christian university.
American Principles Project op-ed in Newsmax
The administration’s scrutinize-and-penalize campaign is not about student interests or well-being. It’s a concerted effort to snuff out educational choice and pigeon-hole students into schools that promulgate the far left’s “woke,” anti-conservative, anti-American agenda.
Take action
Executive Action To Dismantle The Office Of Enforcement
Committee Hearings To Fully Investigate The Office’s Bias
Legislation To Ensure The Enforcement Office Never Targets Christians Again
It’s time to take a stand!
Tell Congress to keep the Enforcement Office’s hands off Christian and career colleges and let students choose the schools that fit their values.
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