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The expansions of benefits for active duty and military veterans to gain access to higher education opened the door for hundreds of thousands of students to enroll in college over the last several years, but many colleges and universities could make changes to better serve the needs of military students, according to a new poll from Gallup.

With the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, members of Congress unveil new proposals for the future of higher education on a continuous basis. NASFAA's new series provides monthly updates on new pieces of legislation introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to provide aid administrators with most up-to-date information for their offices and their own administration. Check out The Capitol Recap page to learn more about the proposals that were rolled out last month.

If you are your institution's primary NASFAA contact, last week you may have received an email from us with a link to a brief NASFAA survey on Award Displacement. NASFAA is working with the National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) to survey our membership on this topic. We encourage all primary contacts who received the email to complete the survey as requested by Friday, November 20, 2015. Responses will remain confidential and individual institutions will not be identified. Again, since NASFAA has moved to using randomly assigned survey groups, not all primary contacts received this survey. Please refer to your email for the link to the survey.

Congratulations to the third round of winners for NASFAA's 50th Anniversary Trivia Contest. The winners will each receive a NASFAA baseball cap - check out our list of winners on our conference website. Want a chance to win great prizes? Play NASFAA's 50th Anniversary Trivia Contest - trivia questions about NASFAA from 1987-1996 are ready for you to answer now. And stay tuned to Today's News to see if you're a winner.

The Department announces the posting of additional chapters of the Gainful Employment Operations Manual.

During the period of November 19-23, 2015, the Department of Education (the Department) will perform extended system maintenance to its core systems, including G5. 

As part of its ongoing efforts to ensure that Federal Student Aid and the Department of Education provide the best services possible to our school partners and, in turn, support the school community in administering the Title IV programs for students, the Department has implemented a School Partners Survey.

"The term 'first generation' tends to be thrown around a lot by educators and policy makers. But what does the term mean?" Inside Higher Ed asks.

"The Starbucks Corporation this week announced that it will offer a tuition-free education to a spouse or child of its employees who are veterans or active-duty members of the U.S. military," Inside Higher Ed reports.

"Whether it's government regulation or businesses monitoring themselves, a vibrant economy needs an effective, fair regulatory system," Shelley Metzenbaum, senior adviser to the Volcker Alliance, writes in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal.

"Another commission on the future of higher education has just been formed. I thus sometimes wonder whether we would all be better off and save everyone a lot of time and money and headaches if we instead embraced what should be the standard-issue for any academic administrator in this age of disruption: the Magic 8-Ball," according to Inside Higher Ed's Higher Ed Beta.

"These days, higher education costs students and their families a pretty penny. ...The spike is worrisome, when you consider all the student loan debt that’s piling up — and possibly infuriating, given that at one time college cost $0 (or very close to it) in America," according to Credit.com's blog.

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