Liberty University president cries foul after leak of Dept of Education report on school's safety compliance
Fox News
Liberty University's president speaks with Fox News Digital about a leaked Education Department report that could hamper the conservative school's financial aid eligibility.
Officials at the private evangelical university in Virginia deny the claims laid out in the DOE's findings. Liberty's president worried that the leak of the DOE's findings to the Post will impact negotiations with the DOE and believes someone leaked the report to "poison the well." Additionally, the school says it's been threatened with an unprecedented $37.5 million fine, which would be far more than recent fines levied on universities by the Department of Education, such as a $4.5-million one slapped on Michigan State over the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
"The most damaging element of this whole process is the fact that for the first time that any of us are aware, the Department of Education leaked a preliminary report while we are in the process of negotiating with the department about all the advancements that we've made. And so that's the biggest issue," Liberty University President Dr. Dondi E. Costin told Fox News Digital. Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.