Department of Education

What Does Higher Ed Have to Say About the Proposed Title IX Rules?

What Does Higher Ed Have to Say About the Proposed Title IX Rules?

The Chronicle of Higher Education By Sarah Brown The Education Department’s proposed regulations on Title IX, the federal gender-equity law, would provide colleges with some long-sought flexibility when responding to sexual-misconduct reports — but would make campus disciplinary proceedings far too legalistic and burdensome. That’s according to the public comments, […]

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Negotiators Convene to Debate Accreditation and Innovation, Trudge Through Changes to Protocols

Negotiators Convene to Debate Accreditation and Innovation, Trudge Through Changes to Protocols

NASFAA By Joelle Fredman, NASFAA Staff Reporter January 16, 2019 Higher education stakeholders convened in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to begin the first of three sessions of negotiated rulemaking, or “neg reg,” to consider changes to the federal regulations on accreditation and other issues based on draft regulatory language released earlier this month […]

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DeVos tells higher ed leaders the industry is ‘due for a rethink’

DeVos tells higher ed leaders the industry is ‘due for a rethink’

Education Dive Dive Brief: Ahead of the federal negotiated rulemaking session on higher ed accreditation that kicks off next month, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos laid out her department’s priorities in a meeting Wednesday with industry leaders. According to prepared remarks, she said it is time to “rethink” higher education and called […]

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Former employees sue parent company of defunct Brightwood College as students seek answers

Former employees sue parent company of defunct Brightwood College as students seek answers

Channel 10 News SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A group of Brightwood employees have sued the for-profit’s parent company, alleging they did not receive the legally required 60-days notice before the school abruptly shut down Wednesday. The suit, filed in Delaware, location of Educational Corporation of America, says the company violated […]

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2018-2019 Award Year Deadline Dates for Reports and Other Records Associated With the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

2018-2019 Award Year Deadline Dates for Reports and Other Records Associated With the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Federal Register  2018-2019 Award Year Deadline Dates for Reports and Other Records Associated With the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program (FSEOG), the Federal Work-Study (FWS) Programs, the Federal Pell Grant (Pell Grant) Program, the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct […]

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ED Officials Emphasize Borrower Responsibility, Changing Culture at FSA Conference

ED Officials Emphasize Borrower Responsibility, Changing Culture at FSA Conference

NASFAA By Allie Bidwell, NASFAA Senior Reporter ATLANTA—As thousands of financial aid professionals reconvened Wednesday morning at an annual training conference on federal student aid, Department of Education (ED) officials continued a drumbeat on the importance of strengthening the relationship between government officials, institutions, and students. To achieve that goal, […]

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AP Exclusive: Government questions unfair student loan practices

AP Exclusive: Government questions unfair student loan practices

AP News By KEN SWEET NEW YORK (AP) — One of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans. That’s the finding of a Department of Education audit of practices at Navient Corp., the nation’s […]

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Issue Brief: Verification

Issue Brief: Verification

NASFAA Key Takeaways Verification plays an important role in ensuring the integrity of federal student aid programs, but the process remains overly complex, disproportionately affects low-income students, and is burdensome for students and aid administrators. The Department of Education does not reliably release data on verification selection criteria or the […]

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New York AG Sues Debt-Relief Companies

New York AG Sues Debt-Relief Companies

Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum Telemarketers from several student loan relief companies falsely represented themselves as employees of the federal government and told borrowers they could not enroll in debt-relief programs like income-based repayment on their own, the New York attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme […]

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Dept. of Education’s Rationale for the Gainful Employment Repeal

Dept. of Education’s Rationale for the Gainful Employment Repeal

Powers Law by Dan Brozovic Many in the higher education community are aware of the Department of Education’s (“ED” or the “Department”) latest proposal for the Gainful Employment (“GE”) rule:  to rescind it, replace it with expanded College Scorecard disclosures for all institutions, and possibly also require institutions to make expanded disclosures on their […]

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