Up to Eleven: How For-Profit Colleges "Tapped" Political Channels to Inhibit the Department of Education

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2014
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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The Herman M. Somers Prize in Political Science
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This thesis focuses on the for-profit higher education industry's efforts to hinder the Department of Education's attempt to bar the worst performing programs from receiving federal funding through the Gainful Employment-Debt Measures regulation. I hypothesize that for-profit colleges exerted disproportionate influence on the rule-making process by pressuring Congress members, who in turn pressured the Department of Education. I use political donation records, lobbying records, letters, phone interviews with Department officials and interest group leaders, and other sources to evaluate my hypothesis. I find that the for-profit higher education industry effectively used Congress as an intermediary to pressure the Department of Education, which played a role in the weakening of the regulation.
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