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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Time.com College financial aid season kicks off today, October 1, as the 2019-2020 Free Application for Federal Financial Aid opens for filing. Anyone who wants to access the billions of dollars of federal financial aid awarded each year—including grants, loans, and work study—has to complete the FAFSA. The information you […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum The Department of Education will take another step this week toward making the federal student aid process fully accessible from mobile devices like your cellphone. The department will launch a mobile-friendly version this week of fafsa.gov, the website that hosts the Free Application for Federal […]
Chronicle of Higher Education What You Need to Know About the GOP Bill to Bring Sweeping Changes to Higher Ed By Adam Harris DECEMBER 01, 2017 Updated (12/1/2017, 2:49 p.m.) with additional details. After a flurry of movement this week on the reauthorization of the federal law governing higher education, which […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education House Republicans Eye Sweeping Changes in Higher Education Act By Adam Harris NOVEMBER 29, 2017 Updated (11/29/2017, 1:45 p.m.) with information about bipartisan efforts at reauthorization. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to release a bill this week that would reauthorize the federal […]
Inside Higher Ed Education Department plans a new platform aimed at smoothing applications for student aid and helping borrowers manage loan payments. But Congress must act to remove the most serious obstacles to completion of the FAFSA. By Andrew Kreighbaum November 29, 2017 Nationally, just three out of five high school […]
US Dept of Education April 24, 2017 Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced new flexibilities available to institutions to use for verification of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA ®) information. The announcement is part of an ongoing effort to […]