Gainful Employment: An Unfair Rule With Bad Consequences
The U.S. Department of Education’s Gainful Employment (GE) regulation judges degree programs on the debt and earnings of their graduates within just one area of higher education—the for-profit sector. While the GE Rule may result in the closure of many poor-performing programs, this complex regulation will also harm many reputable ones by penalizing those that actually produce excellent outcomes for their students and imposing sanctions for poor performance without offering an opportunity to improve.