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The Trump administration on Thursday released a sweeping proposal to reorganize, consolidate, and otherwise streamline several agencies across the federal government, including the combination of the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Labor (DOL) into a new agency dubbed the Department of Education and the Workforce (DEW).

Now back in D.C. after a week in Colorado, DME Policy Intern McCall Hopkin writes in her latest blog post about how she's been preparing for next week's 2018 National Conference in Austin. "As is usual with these projects, I learned volumes along the way about the intricacies of financial aid policy and how NASFAA fits into the conversation," she writes. Read on to see what else McCall has been up to over the past week and to learn about why the Rockies holds such a special place in her heart.

While NASFAA's Training and Regulatory Assistance staff are in Austin for the 2018 National Conference, AskRegs email responses will be delayed. However, NASFAA's AskRegs Knowledgebase always is available to search and instantly find credible solutions to your most pressing regulatory and compliance questions. Answers to many AskRegs questions already exist in the knowledgebase.

This year, NASFAA is doing its part to reduce paper pollution by foregoing the printed program usually provided upon arrival at the NASFAA National Conference in favor of printable PDFs. NASFAA thanks its platinum conference sponsors for their support of this effort. The Conference Schedule, Conference Session Descriptions, Conference Exhibitor Descriptions, and the 2017 Annual Business Meeting Minutes are now posted and available for download. Please print only what you need and don't forget to bring it with you to Austin. These items will also be accessible for viewing in the official NASFAA Conference App.

No. The deadline is now July 1, 2019. In the June 18, 2018 Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced that it will be further delaying the implementation of gainful employment (GE) program disclosure distribution requirements found in 34 CFR 668.412(d) and (e) View the full answer to this question for more on the requirements, and search for answers to your other pressing regulatory and compliance questions, in NASFAA's AskRegs Knowledgebase.

So you've done all the work to get your manual in compliance with federal regulations ... and then a new school year comes along. Without NASFAA's P&P Builder, a module of the Compliance Engine, that might mean combing through pages and pages of separate documents to make updates, but the P&P Builder makes it easy to move your existing manual in the P&P Builder from last year into the new year. Just click "Create a New Manual," name it, and click a section. You will receive a prompt which asks you if you'd like to "Pre-fill with Existing Data." Select the previous version you'd like to bring information over from and proceed. Head to our Compliance Engine Frequently Asked Questions page to find more answers to common questions.

A House appropriations subcommittee took steps toward finalizing its funding bill for fiscal year (FY) 2019 late last week that includes funding for labor, health and human services, and educational programs. While the subcommittee did propose increases in funding for the Department of Education (ED) for programs such as TRIO, they were not focused on those related to student grants or loans.

The Department posted a report that notifies the community of the approved awards for the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) and Federal Work-Study (FWS) programs for the 2018–19 Award Year. 

"Last week I blogged about the confusion engendered by many colleges and universities when they send students details of their financial aid packages along with their acceptance letters. The terms and conditions spelled out are often opaque and sometimes deceptive. 'If Congress doesn’t act,' I suggested, 'the Commonwealth of Virginia could require a standardized letter for all state institutions,'" James Bacon writes for Bacon's Rebellion.

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