Although there is no reason to believe the company was legally required to register Graham as a lobbyist, he was perhaps the most influential advocate for predatory colleges in the previous gainful employment debate, and he personally lobbied the White House again this year.
Beginning in February, Congress began to flex its muscle on the debate over gainful employment.
The debate over gainful employment "has only served to distract from our joint, core responsibility and mission, which is to provide students -- particularly non-traditional ones such as veterans, adults and parents - with the education and skills they need to achieve their very own version of the American Dream," he wrote in an email.
Debate on the gainful employment rule has often centered on access to higher education.
This attack comes in the midst of the intense Washington debate over the "gainful employment" rule, which President Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are seeking to implement, against a massive onslaught of lobbying by the for-profit college industry.
Given APSCU's record of harboring bad colleges, APSCU, and institutions that remain members of APSCU, have undermined their credibility as participants in debates on the gainful employment rule or any other issue in higher education.
Known as the "gainful employment" rule, the hotly debated regulation would gauge whether students at such programs are able to repay their student loans and can attain salaries that don't bury them under unmanageable debts.
This is not about 'gotcha.' " These rules, which try to define how such programs prepare students for "gainful employment," have been the hardest-fought issue in the debate over exploitive and fraudulent practices in the industry.
These rules, which try to define how such programs prepare students for "gainful employment," have been the hardest-fought issue in the debate over exploitive and fraudulent practices in the industry.
Since 2010, there has been a debate between the Department of Education and career colleges and universities concerning the proposed rule-making on "gainful employment," which sets standards for eligibility for federal aid.
Throughout founding-era dictionaries, Madisons notes from the Constitutional Convention, The Federalist Papers, and the ratification debates, the term commerce is consistently used to mean trade or exchangenot all economic or gainful activity that has some attenuated connection to trade or exchange.
