"The White House's Office of Management and Budget has denied the Education Department's 'emergency' request for approval to immediately survey Pell Grant recipients who have transferred from one institution to another," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "The association and several others representing traditional colleges opposed the department's request and questioned both its motive in pursuing the survey and its rationale for treating the matter as an emergency. Eleven higher-education associations signed a letter urging the Office of Management and Budget to deny the request. The groups said in the letter that they believed 'there is no appropriate federal rationale for this survey to be done without giving the public, including the higher-education institutions, an opportunity to comment.'"