Posted on 04/09/2023 6:58:12 PM PDT by marshmallow
Belmont Abbey College plans to eventually end reliance on federal aid as part of a new campaign called “Made True.”
Leaders of the small Catholic college located in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, in February launched a $100 million capital campaign toward building up the school’s endowment and reducing federal aid, with the goal of one day eliminating the latter once and for all.
“First and foremost, the federal government has historically used the funding to mandate policies inimical to Catholic education. These policies have often risen to the level of serious moral violations to the freedom of conscience of our community,” said Philip Brach, vice president of college relations at Belmont Abbey, in a March 20 email to The College Fix.
The fundraising website argues that “Without the ability to remain financially independent and secure, we place our faith-based practices at risk from a federal government both increasingly intrusive to private institutions and increasingly hostile to faith.”
Brach told The Fix that the “first governmental intrusion on Belmont Abbey College resulted from an EEOC complaint by eight faculty members that the college’s healthcare plan did not cover contraceptives or abortion.”
The case was eventually decided in favor of the college’s policy, but only after the Obama Administration prolonged the case for several years by reversing an initial favorable judgment by the Charlotte EEOC office.
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Independence from government control illegal.
Great! All schools should be void of fed $’s.
Good news!
God bless their efforts
“..All schools should be void of fed $’s....”
^THIS^, especially private Christian schools.
Without the Fed $$ ax hanging over their heads, they cannot be coerced and/or strong-armed against their fundamental beliefs and doctrines.
Good move. Hope they succeed. Hillsdale College has been famously independent of any federal dollars for many years now, and they are stronger than ever.
“Great! All schools should be void of fed $’s.”
The Constitution gives the House of Representatives control of the federal budget in that all appropriations bills must originate in the House. Republicans control the House. Federal aid to education can end in fiscal 2024, which begins October 1, 2023 if the Republicans in Congress simply do not fund the Department of Education in the 2024 budget and all other federal agency grants to education are eliminated.
What will Speaker McCarthy’s Republican House of Representatives do with the 2024 budget?
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