Training Division rescinds file $37.7 million nice in opposition to Grand Canyon College

[ad_1] The U.S. Department of Education has rescinded a $37.7 million nice, with prejudice, in opposition to Grand Canyon College for alleged misleading practices, in accordance with the college.

The proposed nice was the biggest ever issued by the division in opposition to a college.

College President Brian Mueller welcomed the choice to rescind the nice.

"The details clearly help our rivalry that we had been wrongly accused of deceptive our Doctoral college students, and we respect the popularity that these accusations had been with out advantage," Mueller stated in an announcement.

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Grand Canyon College President Brian Mueller welcomed the choice to rescind the nice. (Grand Canyon College)

"GCU is a frontrunner in innovation, transparency and finest practices in larger schooling and we look ahead to working cooperatively with the Division sooner or later – simply as we now have with all regulatory businesses," he continued.

The nice was imposed in October 2023 after the federal authorities reported that an investigation discovered that 78% of doctoral students who graduated between 2017 and 2022 required further programs and incurred further prices of a minimum of $10,000 to finish their applications.

The U.S. Division of Training has rescinded a $37.7 million nice, with prejudice, in opposition to Grand Canyon College. (J. David Ake/Getty Photographs)

The college appealed the nice the next month, with Mueller accusing the federal authorities of being "uncontrolled" and concentrating on one of many largest Christian universities within the nation, in accordance with an announcement on the time.

Mueller additionally stated in a speech on the time that the nice was "ridiculous" and famous that one other high Christian college, Liberty College, was reportedly being threatened with a $37 million nice for allegedly underreporting crimes.

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The proposed nice was the biggest ever issued by the Division of Training in opposition to a college. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP through Getty Photographs)

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"It’s attention-grabbing, isn’t it, that the 2 largest Christian universities within the nation, this one and Liberty College, are each being fined virtually the an identical quantity at virtually the an identical time?" he stated. "Now could be there a trigger and impact there? I don’t know. But it surely’s a truth."