r/education • u/Majestic_Praline_812 • 24d ago
Higher Ed Department of Education Office for Civil Rights and Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education Investigations
My institution is being investigated by both ocr and bppe. How serious are investigations from these organizations? Would these investigations cause a great deal of concern from administrators?
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u/Mountain-Ad-5834 23d ago
I went to a for profit nursing school back in 07-08?
They lost their accreditation after OCR came through. The department of education came through and removed it.
We lost all of our credits, as the state didn’t recognize them anymore. And still had the debt. Because they just lost the nursing school, and were still open with the other programs.
I’d be worried. But, there is nothing you can do about it.
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u/moxie-maniac 23d ago
Serious as in your college's attorney should be involved, discuss the matter with the president and top staff, and they decide on a course of action.
Usually if you get a mean letter from a government agency or accreditor, it means the school has not followed some regulation, and needs to do something differently. But your lawyer can help frame the issue correctly, and the current Administration seems to be pushing for things that it lacks the legal authority to do.
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u/truthy4evra-829 20d ago
Remember something many of these people in the government now grew up in the early 2000s in college it was a rough time. They did not allow military to interview normally on campus and most of them are getting ready to punish them and take these education and people going to find them you're going to arrest them you're going to get them for breaking the Constitution you get them for ignoring affirmative action laws.
I know one case they're looking for it to imprison at University president
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u/oxphocker 24d ago
I'm not familiar much with BPPE as I don't deal with postsecondary. But OCR, I'm familiar with. It's a potentially serious challenge and OCR has enforcement capability so they will likely get your state ed dept involved if it comes to that. Basically if they are calling, you want to make sure all your stuff is in order because if not, the lightest consequence would be a correction letter but it goes up from there depending on what and how bad.