University Business

JULY 27, 2023

Department of Education has made clear that the Safeguards Rule, as it’s commonly called, applies to all postsecondary institutions that participate in financial aid programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. Department of Education was putting it through a program review for Title IV compliance.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 22, 2024

Department of Education would surprise us when they released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and proposed regulations related to the most recent negotiated rulemaking. Spoiler alert, they have now released the NPRM with proposed rules on distance education. We’ve been waiting with bated breath to see if the U.S.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2023

Department of Education is listening! Their February 15 press release ( see our post about it ) provides opportunities to inform the Department on two separate but related topic areas. The result appeared to be inferior education at a higher cost. Surprise by the Department of Education on the ‘Big Impact’.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Congress created a distinction between the definitions of “distance education” and “correspondence education” for purposes of federal financial aid eligibility. The distinction is that distance education courses include “regular and substantive interaction” (or RSI) whereas correspondence courses do not.

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

Blogs What universities should do now in the uncertain OPM landscape Recent releases from the Department of Education have put Online Program Managers (OPMs) front and center of the news cycle. These narratives only bolster the skepticism a majority of young adults without degrees already report feeling toward higher education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2023

Understandably, most colleges and universities seek accreditation to obtain funds from the Department of Education to provide Title IV federal financial aid funding such as Pell Grants, etc. Lastly, all institutional (and programmatic) accreditors have standards.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And with an increasingly high number of professional accrediting bodies now touching and impacting many colleges and universities, now is the time for higher ed leaders to strive to support and understand how accreditation can improve overall to strengthen post-secondary education even more. He has recently moved to Sedona, AZ.

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