Will the Government Try to Regulate Curricula in Private Colleges?

Christianity Today is reporting new regulations that may either regulate curricula in privately run schools (including church owned such as Baylor, Notre Dame and many others) or refuse to grant financial aid.

Many questions arise.

Why was the response to corruption in for-profit school met with regulations that attack the freedom of religion?

Are we financing/subsidizing students or schools?

Universities have strict regulations in terms of accreditation. Why does the government feel that they can over-ride this longstanding and respected system?

Why does the business concept of buyer beware not apply here? Sure, any potential student should ask the recruitment officer how many of the graduates have jobs upon graduating and what kind of money they make. Every time, that should be asked. It used to be. But now government regulations are cited as disallowing the school to answer. Why not fewer regulations, rather than more?

How is it that the government feels it can regulate the curricula in colleges and universities at all? Aren't professors the content expert? Don't they make the decisions, rather than the administration? Has the success in public school been so great (NOT; the worst in the industrialize world) that we should extend what they do to universities (the best, most competitive in the world.)

Given the huge money shortfall, where will we cut higher education? If religious schools are on the block first, then is there a bias in the government?

If the aim is against "pervasively sectarian schools" (who often don't want to be regulated or funded by the government in any case) why take aim at all institutions owned by churches, and so including Baylor and Notre Dame. Note that up until now these sorts of schools have taught a mostly secular curricula.

Has the Devil over played his hand here? Was it not enough that academia is pervasively dismissive of faith? Now the government will attempt to step in, contrary to academic convention, any business sense, and every bit of reason about raising educational standard, -- will not these insitutions realize they are being threatened.

Has "culture wars" moved from the concern of a few marginal folks to persecution of all the church?

Or was this a mistake? Or misunderstanding?