New College alumna Amy Laitinen ’92 quoted on proposed changes to higher education regulations

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- by The New York Times

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New College alumna Amy Laitinen ’92 is quoted extensively in this story on proposed changes to higher education regulations.
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans begin work on Tuesday on an extensive rewrite of the law that governs the nation’s system of higher education, seeking to dismantle landmark Obama administration regulations designed to protect students from predatory for-profit colleges and to repay the loans of those who earned worthless degrees from scam universities…
“The credit hour is the bedrock of the entire higher education system, so it could be catastrophic,” said Amy Laitinen, the director of higher education at the New America Foundation, a research group. “This could do things we can’t even imagine yet — like open up the door to a whole new breed of for-profit institution, without any safeguards.”