GOP Platform on Higher Education

July 19, 2016
  • Industry News

The Republican Party's platform, which was released on the first day of the GOP convention in Cleveland, included criticism of the Obama administration's handling of sexual discrimination on college campuses as well as calls to decouple accreditation from federal financial aid and to bring the private sector back into the financing of student loans. The document also criticized the dominance of liberalism on college campuses and argued for the encouragement of new systems of learning to compete with traditional, four-year colleges.

Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/07/19/gop-platform-higher-education