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Potential Processing Delays for Financial Aid Due to Calculation Error

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education Department (ED) said it has discovered a calculation error in student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, potentially continuing delays for college applications.

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A Return to the ‘Normal-Normal’: Colleges Ready to Adjust to End of Pandemic Emergencies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions. This adjustment may be an administratively complex process. It sort of starts a clock.

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Secret Shopper Policy Draws Praise, Concern

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Anything that involves the federal government taking a stronger role in monitoring these institutions, I think, is valuable.” These under-resourced schools, Draeger said, need more support from the federal government to be in compliance, not punishment. This is not a program that you can just throw together,” he said.

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Politics and Policy Making in the Postsecondary Sector

Confessions of a Community College Dean

College presidents and other high-level administrators have been active in negotiated rule making in the past, so this is a matter higher education leaders should particularly watch in 2023. The Supreme Court will also hear arguments about the legal validity of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness policy.

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Washington Update: Higher Ed Policy, Regulations, and Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 182 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Tom Netting

The Change Leader, Inc.

The discussion highlights the Biden-Harris administration’s active role in Negotiated Rulemaking since late 2020, bringing about a comprehensive set of regulations affecting higher education. The Higher Education Act (HEA) was signed into law in 1965 and is supposed to be renewed every five years.

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Predatory Colleges, Converted To Non-Profit, Are Failing (David Halperin, Republic Report)

Higher Education Inquirer

Doing all of that at a time when the Biden administration, to its great credit, is working diligently to hold predatory schools accountable would be risky. Department of Education to investigate Keiser’s schools, which have received billions in taxpayer-funded student financial aid.