Education Dept. Proposes Narrowing Parts of 'Gainful Employment' Regulation
September 27, 2011 ~ The Chronicle of Higher Education
Saying the intent of its new “gainful employment” regulation was to take aim at colleges’ “worst-performing programs,” the Department of Education today proposed an easing of the rule:
Colleges creating new programs would need only to obtain the department’s approval if the programs were similar to ones that fail the debt-to-income or loan-repayment tests of the regulation. In its notice of the proposed change, published today in the Federal Register, the department estimates that more than 4,500 new programs at for-profit and nonprofit colleges will be submitted for approval annually.
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October 27, 2011 ~ Education and Labor Committee ~ RSS Article White House officials announced a new plan they claim will significantly lower student loan payments. In a speech yesterday at the University of Colorado, President Obama told students, “Americans could see their payments go down by hundreds of dollars a month.” Sounds great – but like most things with this administration, the facts reveal that the average student loan holder is unlikely to see any real impact from this plan. |
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