Financial aid caught in congressional crossfire
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. FEBRUARY 5, 2013. Many financial-aid packages that begin going out this month for college students may as well come with a disclaimer: “awards depend on how the fiscal...
View ArticleA New Accreditation System?
INSIDE HIGHER ED. FEBRUARY 14, 2013. In President Obama’s few sentences about higher education in the State of the Union address Tuesday night, there might have been a presidential precedent set: the...
View ArticleSequestration and Financial Aid
INSIDE HIGHER ED. MARCH 4, 2013. A few hours before President Obama signed an order officially instating across-the-board spending cuts Friday night, the U.S. Education Department issued guidance on...
View ArticleGoing Beyond Interest Rates
INSIDE HIGHER ED. MARCH 14, 2013. Another legislative deadline for federal financial aid is looming in this town of perpetual crisis: the interest rate on subsidized student loans will double July 1,...
View ArticleProblem with Title IV Eligibility Under State Authorization Rule
INSIDE HIGHER ED. APRIL 1, 2013. Many colleges in Florida — and potentially other states, including California and Texas — could lose eligibility for their students to receive federal financial aid...
View ArticleOne Price in California
INSIDE HIGHER ED. APRIL 5, 2013. California community colleges will not find an ally in their new system chancellor, Brice Harris, if they try to cope with crushing student demand by raising tuition...
View ArticleCompetency-Based Education Advances With U.S. Approval of Program
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. APRIL 18, 2013. Last month the U.S. Education Department sent a message to colleges: Financial aid may be awarded based on students’ mastery of “competencies” rather...
View ArticleConfusion on State Authorization
INSIDE HIGHER ED. MAY 20, 2013. The Education Department announced Friday that it would push back by a year the deadline for complying with a rule requiring states to authorize colleges within their...
View ArticleAccreditation Fast Track?
INSIDE HIGHER ED. JUNE 7, 2013. A proposal is circulating quietly on Capitol Hill to ask accreditors to create a new, more flexible form of approval for new and nontraditional providers of higher...
View ArticleNo Love for Accreditation
INSIDE HIGHER ED. JUNE 14, 2013. To hear members of Congress tell it, reauthorizing the Higher Education Act is looming on the near horizon of the legislative agenda — even though most others here...
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