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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

While advocates of access hailed the policy, the for-profit sector and financial aid offices raised worries. The program will use undercover operatives—“secret shoppers”—to test whether schools are complying with laws governing the federal financial aid program.

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Politics and Policy Making in the Postsecondary Sector

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A: I think it’s important for senior leaders in higher education institutions to be aware of the public policy context and how it influences higher education and the resources available to institutions and students. One important policy consideration is how divided government at the federal level will affect higher education.

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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. and how these will impact institutions and students.

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

Higher Education Inquirer

The apparent aims were to evade the heightened government regulations applied uniquely to for-profit schools in order to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse — and to escape the growing stigma that the industry’s predatory behavior had placed on for-profits.