Gainful Employment: Using Data to Examine Potential Effects of a High School Earnings Threshold
Issued in 2014, the Education Department implemented the Gainful Employment (GE) Rule to protect students from low-quality postsecondary programs...
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What Will Happen If We Reinstate the Gainful Employment Rule?
By: Michael Itzkowitz, Senior Fellow, Higher Education, Third Way, Shelbe Klebs, Education Policy Advisor, Third Way Originally posted via Third Way...
Accountability That Works: Restoring Gainful Employment and Strengthening Higher Education Accountability Measures
The Gainful Employment (GE) Rule was intended to protect students from low-quality programs that often left them with a mountain of debt and credits...
Searching for Common Ground: Week One of Negotiated Rulemaking
By: Kyle Southern, TICAS and Sarah Sattelmeyer, New America Last Monday, negotiators for this fall’s Affordability and Student Loans Committee began...
Infographic – What Is The 90/10 Loophole?
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Memo on Senate Vote on Student Loan Borrower Defense Rules
Memo to interested parties on the borrower defense rules in advance of the vote in the U.S. Senate on a resolution (H.J. Res 76) to disapprove the 2019 rule and restore the stronger regulation created in 2016.
Reducing Harm from Sudden College Closures
Cross-posted from Yan Cao, The Century Foundation When colleges shut down in orderly ways and with adequate advance public notice, the closures do...
The Evolution of the For-Profit College Industry: New Challenges for Oversight
Cross-posted from the Institute for College Access & Success In recent years, enrollment at for-profit colleges has fallen steeply due to...
Betsy DeVos’ Cruel Math Denies Relief to Defrauded Borrowers
Cross-posted from Ben Miller, Center for American Progress Thousands of borrowers from the long-defunct Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical...
Defrauded Students Left Holding the Bag Under Final “Borrower Defense” Rule
Cross-posted from the Institute for College Access & Success Claiming to protect students and hold colleges accountable, on Friday the...
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Coalition Comment to ED on Part II “Accountability in Higher Education and Access through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell”
Nineteen stakeholder organizations working on behalf of students, consumers, veterans, service members, faculty and staff, civil rights, and college...
Coalition Comment to ED on “Accountability in Higher Education and Access through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell”
Twenty-three stakeholder organizations representing millions of students, school admission counselors, workers, veterans, consumers, and low-income...