Trump Division of Training Rescinds Almost $38 MILLION High quality Towards One in every of America’s Largest Christian Universities | The Gateway Pundit

The Trump Division of Training has rescinded penalties imposed by the Biden Regime in opposition to Phoenix, Arizona’s Grand Canyon College (GCU) for allegedly deceptive college students about tuition prices.

This was one in every of a number of assaults on the college throughout their years-long battle with the federal authorities underneath Biden.

As The Gateway Pundit reported in December 2023, the FTC introduced a lawsuit in opposition to the varsity, alleging “false promoting,” after the Division of Training imposed an enormous $37.7 million positive on October 31.

“The proposed positive motion was, by far, the biggest the Division of Training had ever levied in opposition to a college,” the college mentioned in a information launch.

GCU President Brian Mueller mentioned, “The information clearly assist our competition that we had been wrongly accused of deceptive our Doctoral college students and we admire the popularity that these accusations had been with out advantage.”

Moreover, the college introduced on Tuesday that the IRS reaffirmed its 501(c)(3) nonprofit standing, “additional refuting lawfare” the college has confronted. “The current IRS and ED choices stand in stark distinction to false accusations made by officers within the Biden Administration associated to GCU’s nonprofit standing and doctoral disclosures,” the college mentioned.

This comes after Arizona’s total congressional delegation signed a letter dated March 5, urging the administration to revive GCU’s nonprofit standing after its recognition was revoked by the Biden Division of Training. Nevertheless, GCU mentioned the varsity remains to be “cooperating with ED in that course of and is hopeful a choice can be rendered quickly.”

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This March, Congressman Hamadeh joined all the Arizona congressional delegation in defending Grand Canyon College in opposition to assaults from the Biden administration.

Yesterday, @POTUS and @EDSecMcMahon rescinded the egregious $37 million positive.https://t.co/qcJsR352hd pic.twitter.com/x16YkVkGoD

— Workplace of Congressman Abe Hamadeh (@RepAbeHamadeh) Could 17, 2025

GCU, Arizona’s high Christian school and one of many nation’s most outstanding, was not the one Christian college that got here underneath fireplace by the anti-Christian Biden Regime.

70% of enforcement-based actions taken by the Biden regime’s training division focused spiritual and profession faculties.

70% of Biden Training Enforcement Focused Christian and Profession Schools

In a information launch final week, GCU celebrated the Division of Training’s determination:

ED states unequivocally that there aren’t any findings in opposition to GCU

(Could 16, 2025) – The U.S. Division of Training (ED) has rescinded a $37.7 million positive, with prejudice, that was proposed in opposition to Grand Canyon College, clearing the college of any wrongdoing.

In a Joint Stipulation of Dismissal order issued by ED’s Workplace of Hearings and Appeals, the Division dismissed the case with no findings, fines, liabilities or penalties of any sort. ED confirmed it has not established that GCU violated any Title IV necessities, together with the declare that GCU “considerably misrepresented” the price of its doctoral applications that was alleged by ED officers underneath the Biden Administration. The Dismissal acknowledged unequivocally that “there aren’t any findings in opposition to GCU, or any of its staff, officers, brokers, or contractors, and no positive is imposed.”

GCU President Brian Mueller mentioned the positive dismissal is welcome information however he was not stunned by the choice. “The information clearly assist our competition that we had been wrongly accused of deceptive our Doctoral college students and we admire the popularity that these accusations had been with out advantage,” Mueller mentioned. “GCU is a pacesetter in innovation, transparency and greatest practices in increased training and we look ahead to working cooperatively with the Division sooner or later – simply as we’ve with all regulatory companies.”

The proposed positive motion was, by far, the biggest the Division of Training had ever levied in opposition to a college. GCU filed an enchantment to ED’s Workplace of Hearings and Appeals, sustaining that the unsubstantiated accusations had been gross mischaracterizations based mostly on remoted, out-of-context statements from sure enrollment paperwork and that, in actual fact, GCU college students obtain strong details about the time, value and credit wanted to finish a doctoral diploma all through their enrollment and onboarding course of. Furthermore, GCU maintains that its disclosures surrounding continuation programs, that are frequent in increased training doctoral applications, present extra data than is legally required or that different universities usually present. As such, GCU has persistently insisted that it will contest any positive quantity – even $1, not to mention $37.7 million.

The dismissal of the positive motion coincides with different regulatory our bodies and courts which have additionally refuted allegations that GCU misrepresented the associated fee and credit of a doctoral program.

• Two federal courts beforehand rejected comparable allegations associated to GCU’s doctoral disclosures in Younger v GCU.
• The Greater Studying Fee deemed the College’s disclosures “strong and thorough” in its 2021 complete assessment.
• The Arizona State Approving Company of the Division of Veterans Affairs in March 2024 discovered “no substantiated findings” in its audit that checked out GCU’s disclosures and processes.

The dismissal additionally follows two current authorized victories for GCU which have negated federal authorities actions taken in opposition to the college.

• In November 2024, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals dominated unanimously that ED acted unlawfully and exceeded its authority by making use of an incorrect authorized normal when it refused to acknowledge GCU’s lawful nonprofit standing. The Ninth Circuit vacated ED’s misguided willpower and remanded the case again to the company to use the proper normal. GCU is hopeful that course of can be accomplished quickly, because the IRS has already decided that GCU meets all authorized necessities as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity. In gentle of the Ninth Circuit ruling, 10 of Arizona’s Congressional members have despatched a bipartisan letter of assist for GCU’s nonprofit standing to ED.
• In March 2025, the U.S. District Courtroom of Arizona dismissed the FTC’s lawsuit in opposition to Grand Canyon College, concluding the FTC doesn’t have jurisdiction underneath the FTC Act as a result of GCU is just not a company “working for its personal revenue or that of its members.” In actual fact, GCU has operated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Arizona nonprofit company fulfilling charitable functions for all however 14 years of its 75-year historical past and most lately since finishing a transaction in 2018 to revert to that standing. The District Courtroom ruling emphasised that “the mere truth {that a} nonprofit is incomes income and increasing doesn’t remodel it right into a for-profit. No federal courtroom has ever adopted such a broad studying of the FTC Act’s definition of a company, which might… give the FTC authority over all method of nonprofit entities.”

The FTC lawsuit continues in opposition to Grand Canyon Training, which supplies providers to GCU, and Mueller regardless of the actual fact the lawsuit primarily raises the identical manufactured nonprofit and doctoral disclosure claims which have been refuted, rejected and dismissed. Any FTC continuation of its nonprofit disclosure allegations following the 9^th Circuit ruling and IRS determination, and the doctoral disclosure allegations following ED’s fine-action dismissal and the opposite courtroom rulings, would solely additional underscore the multi-agency assault initiated underneath the Biden Administration to tie GCU up with protracted authorized proceedings.

You will need to acknowledge that the entire following companies and courts have now both immediately refuted, come to the alternative conclusion or reigned in authorities overreach concerning false claims surrounding GCU’s doctoral disclosures and/or tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Arizona nonprofit standing: