Given all the mess that is happening in the current US higher education industry, the Association has asked how could this situation even occur in the first place? Given all kind of supervision agencies around both at the state & federal level, different associations and accrediting agencies how then this problem ever started? The logical question one will have is that have these agencies done their homework well? The logical answer is “NO“. If they did, then the American society does not need to wait until the student loans hit $1.2 trillion and that college closures become a daily news reported in the media. The logic tells us that the current problem occurs because these agencies have not done enough. For example, a recent senate committee hearing shows how poor one of these agencies has done its job. The current mindset and culture of patting-on-the-back are no longer relevant (it never will) and it has proved to have caused financial disasters to average American families. The mentality of “it-is-not-my-problem” and the attitude of “ignorance” or “I do not care” and “play-it-safe” have no place if people want to serve this country and the American public wholeheartedly. The Association has proposed many months ago to create ESCC (Education Standard and Compliance Commission) that has the integrity to conduct the “real audit roles” on US higher institutions (Title IV) who have received some forms of federal government financial aids or taxpayers’ money such as Pell, SEOG or Stafford Loans (subsidized or unsubsidized), just to name a few of them. This country will be able to minimize the possibility of making the same mistakes in the future had this agency exists. That said, without ESCC, there will be a great chance that cheaters and marginal performers will comeback. Find and elect those individuals who have the quality, integrity, energy, mindset, enthusiasm, sincerity and long-term commitment to the American education which will make this country strives and regains its competitiveness again in the world.