Virginia Foxx: “I would like to share some quotes from the letter. ``This is particularly prevalent in higher education--a space I know…”

“I would like to share some quotes from the letter. ``This is particularly prevalent in higher education--a space I know well following 7 years as the president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and having served as trustee for the University of Miami, Drake University, and the Cooper Union. It is with this lens and my current lens as president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, Chair of the President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs, and member of the White House American Workforce Policy Advisory Board that I feel compelled to provide perspective on the U.S. Department of Education's updated rule governing borrower defense to repayment. . . . ``I am of the opinion that the Department's new borrower defense rules protect individual borrowers from fraud, ensures accountability across institutions of higher education, and protects taxpayers. . . . ``The new rules provide flexibility for schools to make changes to their course offerings and graduation requirements based on costs, student interest, and employer needs without being characterized as fraudulent. Now that nearly all of the major concerns raised by the HBCU community were addressed by the Secretary, it is time to pass the rules so we can put our collective energy into educating America's diverse future workforce. . . . ``All parties must put aside petty partisan differences to arm our country with a highly skilled future U.S.…”