Ed Department changes reporting requirements for online colleges
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 2, 2025
Colleges offering distance education programs will be required to report which students receive federal financial aid starting July 2027.
Scathing GAO reports blame Education Department leaders for FAFSA mess
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
A monthslong investigation found the department failed to properly oversee vendors and communicate with colleges and students.
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Education Department unveils stricter college oversight rules
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 24, 2023
The regulatory package broadens the circumstances in which financially shaky colleges must offer letters of credit, among other consumer protections.
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Education Department official renews call for free community college
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 26, 2023
In remarks at a conference for accreditors, Assistant Secretary Nasser Paydar also scolded some colleges for "chasing the rankings."
Education Department calls on colleges to stop asking about applicants’ criminal histories
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 1, 2023
The recommendation came in a wide-ranging report about how colleges can better support students who were formerly incarcerated.
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Why doesn’t the Education Department collect racial data on college applicants?
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
A new report calls for gathering deeper information on other admissions factors, too, like institutions’ legacy preferences and early decision programs.
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Education Department will use ‘secret shoppers’ to monitor colleges
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 14, 2023
The agency said shoppers will evaluate whether institutions are misrepresenting themselves in areas like completion rates and job placements.
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Education Department struggled to examine whether colleges were misrepresenting themselves, watchdog finds
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 13, 2023
Turnover hampered a unit overseeing a ban on colleges lying about programs, costs and student outcomes, the Government Accountability Office said.
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Education Department guidance could harm colleges that rely on OPMs, Moody’s says
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 4, 2023
Analysts said colleges like Arkansas State University that heavily depend on these vendors would face greater administrative burdens and expenses.
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Education Department failed to properly report on policy experiments at colleges, agency watchdog says
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
The department said by the end of the year it will produce for Congress a comprehensive summary of all the recent trials.
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Cancellation of Education Department research contracts sparks concerns
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The department didn’t provide a list of canceled contracts but said NAEP, the College Scorecard and the College Navigator were not impacted.
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Colleges won’t receive FAFSA applicant info until March, Education Department says
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 30, 2024
The delay further truncates the timeline for institutions to make financial aid offers, and experts have worried that holdups may harm students.
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579 colleges consider legacy status, new Education Department data finds
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The agency recently started asking about the contentious practice of giving admissions preference to alumni’s relatives.
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Education Department reverses course on batch FAFSA corrections
Higher Ed Dive
JULY 31, 2024
The change could increase colleges’ administrative burden and leave some students without financial aid this fall, one industry association said.
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Biden’s proposed $90B Education Department budget features tuition-free community college
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 9, 2023
The president’s fiscal 2024 blueprint, which would also boost the maximum Pell Grant, has virtually no chance of surviving Congress as drafted.
New College of Florida settles disability complaint with Education Department
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The public institution said noncompliant aspects of its web presence stemmed from “years of inattentiveness.”
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Misrepresentations by OPMs could land colleges in trouble, Education Department says
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 16, 2025
Higher education institutions could lose access to financial aid or face penalties if their external service providers mislead students, new guidance says.
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CEHE sues Education Department for $500M, alleging agency forced its colleges to close
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The former college operator says the agency wanted to push its institutions to suddenly shutter so it could impose financial penalties.
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PGWP eligibility expanded for college degree students
The PIE News
MARCH 14, 2025
Canadas college sector has welcomed a recent policy change from the IRCC stating that graduates of college degree programs will now join university students in being exempted from PGWP field of study requirements announced in October 2024. of Canada’s total population to 5% by the end of 2026.
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Amid rocky FAFSA rollout, Education Department to deploy staff to help colleges
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The effort aims to smooth the so-far bumpy debut of the new form, which has been hampered by delays and glitches.
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AFT sues Education Department over anti-DEI guidance
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
The union alleged that the agency's recent guidance barring colleges from considering race in any of their programs and policies is unconstitutional.
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Education Department plans to ramp up transmission of FAFSA data to colleges
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 14, 2024
The agency also announced fixes to issues that prevented some students from completing the form, though it flagged several new glitches.
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Eastern Gateway ends free college program after battle with Education Department
Higher Ed Dive
AUGUST 8, 2023
The agency argued the community college’s program unlawfully charged students who receive Pell Grants more than those who do not.
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Education Department releases regulatory plans on income-driven loan repayment, low-value colleges
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 10, 2023
Undergraduate borrowers would pay less of their discretionary income and unpaid interest wouldn't accumulate under proposed rule.
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Education Department finalizes 90/10 rule, college ownership regulations
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The agency also finished work on a policy that will allow incarcerated students to receive federal Pell Grants.
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Colleges begin pushing back deadlines amid FAFSA delay
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Department of Education said it wouldn’t transmit Free Application for Federal Student Aid data to colleges until March. The moves come after the U.S.
Education Department to ease FAFSA verification requirements this year
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The agency is temporarily rolling back administrative requirements as colleges grapple with an abridged financial aid timeline.
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Justice Department settles with Kansas college accused of discriminating against Black students
Higher Ed Dive
AUGUST 29, 2023
Highland Community College will need to rework policies around discipline, campus security, housing and racial harassment.
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How can the Education Department build a list of low-value college programs?
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Some prominent higher ed groups rejected the proposal altogether, while others suggested metrics they say could make it work.
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Education Department: Common medical conditions have disability protections
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The documents explain colleges and K-12 schools' Section 504 responsibilities for students with asthma, diabetes, food allergies or GERD.
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Education Department pledges ‘strongest-ever’ protections with long-awaited gainful employment draft
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 17, 2023
The agency also introduced regulatory proposals to collect and publish new data from all colleges, like potential earnings.
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Ed Department directs colleges to get eligible students on SNAP before expansion expires
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 30, 2023
Simplified rules for gaining food benefits will rescind shortly after the declared end of the COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11.
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Fire Destroys Historic Building at Knoxville College
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
A 126-year-old building at Knoxville College (KC) was destroyed after a fire broke out at the vacant historically Black college on Monday evening. The Knoxville Fire Department's investigation unit said that it is searching for the cause of the fire.
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Education Department unveils timeline for Title IX, loan forgiveness rules
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The agency’s regulatory agenda also reveals it will pursue rulemaking on the law requiring colleges to report foreign gifts worth $250,000 or more.
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Education Department is ‘concerned’ about potential OPM failures as groups sound alarm on 2U
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 5, 2024
A spokesperson said the agency was worried about how the collapse of an online program management company would impact college students.
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House antisemitism probe demands stronger federal oversight of colleges
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The 43-page report accused some colleges of failing to prevent antisemitism and the U.S. Department of Education of not imposing “real consequences.”
Colleges no longer protected from immigration raids
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 21, 2025
Department of Homeland Security lifted the practice of avoiding immigration enforcement at locations where students gather.
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Advocates ask Education Department to collect new racial, legacy data in college admissions
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Over 30 groups, politicians and faculty call for new transparency in light of an expected Supreme Court decision that would end race-conscious admissions.
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Sen. Durbin calls on Education Department to protect students at 2 shuttering for-profits
Higher Ed Dive
JULY 22, 2024
Northwestern College and American Academy of Art College both announced closures in July in the senator’s home state of Illinois.
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Education Department ramping up Title IX enforcement on pregnancy issues
Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The agency’s recent rebuke of Troy University signals continued oversight in this area — for which colleges should prepare, experts say.
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The college closings of 2024—and what lies beyond
University Business
DECEMBER 16, 2024
A flurry of colleges and universities have shuttheir doors following the pandemic, and 2024 didn’t show signs of slowing down. University Business will continue to monitor the changing landscape of college closings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in the coming year and beyond. Lower enrollment breeds lower tuition revenue.
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Education Department cuts off Florida for-profit college’s access to federal student aid
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 11, 2023
Florida Career College took in more than $99 million in Title IV funds in its fiscal year ending in 2020.
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Eastern Gateway Community College to close Oct. 31
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 17, 2024
Department of Education. The beleaguered Ohio institution faced financial challenges in recent years, spurred by a legal battle with the U.S.
DeVry asks court to block Education Department from recovering $23M in discharged loans
Higher Ed Dive
JULY 6, 2023
The agency is seeking the money under the borrower defense to repayment regulations, which forgive debts for students who were misled by their colleges.
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