Oct 15, 2009: Ferreting Out Financial Aid Fraud
Rumor had it, in the days leading up to Wednesday's hearing before a House of Representatives committee, that officials from the U.S. Government Accountability Office were preparing to screen a video for lawmakers that showed officials at an unidentified for-profit college giving would-be students the answers to a test designed to gauge whether they have the "ability to benefit" from a higher education. The alleged misbehavior by the college official had already been made public -- it was by far the most explosive accusation made in a GAO report issued last month -- but the vision of an ACORN-like video that might live for eternity on Youtube and Metacafe suggested that Wednesday's hearing could be explosive and make life extremely uncomfortable for for-profit colleges.
Read the full article at Inside Higher Ed.
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January 14, 2012 ~ NACCAS NACCAS has published their 2012 Edition of their Accreditation Handbook - dated January 1, 2012. As of that same date, they updated their Standards and Policies as well as their Rules of Practice and Procedure. Click here to download a pdf copy of each document. They can be found on the left side of their page under "Member Resources." |
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| What's the Real Impact of the President's Student Loan Plan? |
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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| Obama's Student-Loan Plan Scores Political Points but Offers Limited Relief |
October 26, 2011 ~ The Chronicle of Higer Education ~ Kelly Field With the nation's student-loan debt approaching $1-trillion, and default rates at their highest level in a decade, President Obama is taking modest steps to ease students' debt burdens. |
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