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Education Department Announces Final Regulations Regarding Predatory Recruiting Practices Against Veterans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Veterans and their families deserve the very best education America has to offer,” said U.S. Today, we’re raising the bar for oversight and accountability for colleges and career schools that prioritize profiting off federal financial aid programs over preparing students for success in the workforce,” said U.S.

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Here’s what’s at stake in these high-level negotiation talks with school stakeholders

University Business

Strategies the Department is pursuing to effect its influence revolve around accreditors’ and state agencies’ regulation measures, governance in distance education, Title IV fund disbursement and more. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal in the press release.

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4 reasons expanding the Pell Grant to prisoners is a net good

University Business

This legislation builds on Congress’ 2020 decision to lift the 1994 ban, which opened about 200 Pell-eligible college programs in 48 states, Washington D.C. Now, an additional 30,000 imprisoned students will receive some $130 million in financial aid per year. and Puerto Rico. Saves taxpayers money.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. But there’s more the federal government can do. Helping schools of education produce more teachers is only one half of the equation.

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Florida colleges have no right to accreditation (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Accreditation in the United States is fragmented and imperfect but remains one of the few mechanisms through which we attempt to guarantee some level of educational integrity and consistency across a large and diverse array of institutions. This applies to any governing board, whether public, private not-for-profit, or private for-profit.

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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.

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Thoughts on ED’s New Guidance on Revenue Share Arrangements and Third-Party Servicers (TPS)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.