[Gideon7]

Obama is doing everything he can to shut down 2-year for-profit colleges via regulation. It's called the "Gainful Employment" regulations, which were first pushed out by the Department of Education in 2012 but were struck down by a DC federal judge for being arbitrary and capricious and without a rational basis.

The regs were specifically designed to kill off at least 25% of all for-profit colleges. Indeed, the Dept of Ed actually justified in an internal memo the stated goal of eliminating 25% of all such colleges, working backwards to hit that number.

See http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/judge-strikes-down-several-provisions-of-gainful-employment-rule/45125

So the Department of Education simply waited for the new Reid-packed DC Court and simply re-issued the same regs for 2014.

Meanwhile, 2-year for-profit colleges, which are disproportionally attended by black and other minorities for vocational training for actual jobs that employers want to hire, gets it in the neck.

With one hand Obama giveth, and with the other he taketh away.

[nascarnation]

I suspect that the management and instructors of those institutions are far less likely to be Democrat contributors compared to colleges and universities.

In the “Big Education” machine, colleges are the transfer mechanism from taxpayer subsidized student dollars to Democrat contributions.