Federal Funding for IT

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Fed. Regs. on Student Identity Verification, State Authorization of Distance Ed. Back on the Radar

April 16, 2013

As reported in today's  Inside Higher Ed , the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has announced its intent to modify the rule-making effort  it originally proposed last year  …

NACUBO Overview of Sequestration Implications

September 26, 2012

The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) has provided a concise overview of the implications for federal student aid and research programs if the pending …

What Might the For-Profit Sector's Problems Mean for All of Higher Ed?

August 3, 2012

Earlier this week, the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Tom Harkin, held a press conference to announce the release of the committee’s report…

EDUCAUSE Comments: Financial Aid Fraud and Identity Verification

June 4, 2012

EDUCAUSE submitted comments last week in response to a U.S. Department of Education (ED) notice about ED’s intent to hold a negotiated rule-making process later this year on financial …

State reciprocity agreements as a path to solve state authorization

October 14, 2011

Today's Inside Higher Ed contains an article discussing the development of state reciprocity agreements as a likely path toward resolving the difficulties state authorization processes …

U.S. Department of Education Appeals State Authorization Ruling

September 9, 2011

Yesterday, September 8, the U.S. Department of Education notified the federal district court in Washington, D.C., that it plans to appeal the court's ruling overturning the portion of the d…

State Authorization Regulations Overturned

July 13, 2011

As reported by a number of outlets (see today’s Inside Higher Education article for example), a federal district court overturned the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED’s) recently…

U.S. Senate bill introduced on state authorization repeal

July 11, 2011

In a previous post , I noted the introduction of a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal recently implemented U.S. Department of Education (ED) regulations establishing a federa…

Helpful Analysis of State Authorization Issue

July 7, 2011

The Chronicle of Higher Education published a thoughtful article on the state authorization issue just before the 4th of July weekend; in case you missed it, the article is available at ht…

A Response to "State Authorization Will Not Cause the Sky to Fall"

July 1, 2011

A guest post yesterday to the New America Foundation's Higher Ed Watch blog took non-profit colleges and universities severely to task for opposing the U.S. Department of Education�…