PROTECT
CHRISTIAN COLLEGES
AND STUDENTS!

What You
Need To Know

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.

  • After a prolonged attack on career colleges, the Biden-Harris Department of Education has turned its aggressive scrutinize-and-penalize campaign against Christian students and the colleges and universities that serve them.
  • The Department of Education’s assault on Christian colleges is being carried out by its Office of Enforcement—an obscure agency created under President Obama and resurrected by President Biden. This secretive office’s mission is to shut down colleges and universities that don’t align with the Administration’s woke agenda.
  • Nearly 70 percent of penalties imposed by the Office of Enforcement have been against Christian institutions and career colleges, even though these schools represent less than 10 percent of college students.
  • Within the last year the Biden-Harris Department of Education imposed record fines against two of the nation’s most prominent Christian universities—Grand Canyon University ($37.7 million) and Liberty University ($14 million). These fines total more than all other penalties assessed by the Department of Education over the past seven years.
  • President Biden increased the Office of Enforcement’s budget by nearly 600 percent last year—and it has requested another almost 230 percent raise this year— signaling the Department of Education’s plans to escalate its attacks further.

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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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