Last week, the California Assembly Higher Education Committee unanimously voted to advance a bill designed to exclude OPMs and service providers from tuition share arrangements. AB 1345 would broaden California’s existing...more
Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) have introduced legislation intended to “hold predatory institutions, including for-profit schools, accountable when they engage in unfair, deceptive...more
This week has subjected the college admissions process – already the subject of considerable debate – to unprecedented scrutiny. The nationwide indictments unsealed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in the past few days...more
The many-headed Obama-era Borrower Defense to Repayment Rule is back, thanks to a September 17 federal court order that overturned Secretary DeVos’ action suspending implementation of the existing rule, followed by the...more
While there are indications that Washington has lessened its antipathy towards for-profit institutions, states continue to go in their own directions. This post focuses on the California Assembly’s recommendation to eliminate...more
Following a highly charged, often contentious three days of debate, the third session of the Negotiated Rulemaking on Borrower Defense to Repayment (DTR) ended as it started, without consensus. The Department of Education...more
Institutions that are in the process of developing competency-based education ("CBE") programs now have a clearer window to the US Department of Education's perspective on how federal student financial aid rules can...more