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.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Agency officials struck an optimistic tone about the release of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 7, 2024

To avoid a repeat of this year's glitches, the agency plans to release the form for testing starting Oct. 1 with a limited number of students and institutions.

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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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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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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 23, 2024

The agency is determining whether legacy preferences constitute racial discrimination — a probe similar to one opened at Harvard.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 20, 2025

The agency must also reinstate canceled grants to the members of AACTE and two other educator preparation groups that sued.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 6, 2024

The agency announced a $50 million effort to provide more support to students and families in light of the botched rollout of the new form.

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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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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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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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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 24, 2025

The plaintiffs allege that the executive branch has exceeded its constitutional authority and violated law after the president’s order to wind the agency down.

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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.

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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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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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Higher Ed Dive

APRIL 5, 2024

The process will affect between 15% and 20% of previously submitted federal financial aid applications.

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The University of California Student Association alleges that the “scale of intrusion into individuals’ privacy is enormous and unprecedented.”

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Higher Ed Dive

JULY 11, 2024

The credit ratings agency flagged several regulations that could fall under threat, including the new gainful employment and Title IX rules.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

The head of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators voiced concerns the change will further delay financial aid offers.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 3, 2025

Department of Education has modified its previous directives on race in hiring, scholarships, student programs, and other educational policies. The department has also revised its approach to evaluating race-neutral policies, such as eliminating standardized test requirements to increase diversity.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

District Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee, said the student group failed to show it faced “irreparable harm” without emergency relief.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 3, 2024

A report confirming an unprecedented caseload comes as the education secretary and civil rights groups plead for more funding.

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Higher Ed Dive

JULY 12, 2024

In a letter to the agency, Reps. Virginia Foxx and James Comer said they will ensure adherence to the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 11, 2025

Education Department to Lay Off Half of Staff Katherine Knott Tue, 03/11/2025 - 04:53 PM Ahead of the announcement, the department told staff that DC offices would be closed on Wednesday and reopen Thursday for security reasons. Byline(s) Liam Knox Jessica Blake

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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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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 5, 2024

The $80 billion proposal would bump up the maximum Pell Grant to $7,495, an increase of $100.

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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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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The agency will conduct negotiated rulemaking next year, which brings together representatives of different groups to discuss policy details.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The groups say “every day counts” to help students go through the new process for filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

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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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Higher Ed Dive

AUGUST 30, 2024

Young America's Foundation, a conservative activist group, argued that the program’s eligibility requirements violate the Constitution.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Cybersecurity is always top of mind for higher education IT administrators, and for good reason. More than 60% of higher education institutions got hit by ransomware attacks in the past year, according to Sophos. At the same time, schools are shorthanded.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The agency said it is investigating San José State University, the University of Pennsylvania and a middle and high school athletics association.

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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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Higher Ed Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The highly anticipated gainful employment regulation requires for-profit institutions to pass debt-to-earnings tests to access federal aid.

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