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Committee members on Tuesday dove into substantial issues in developing a new borrower defense to repayment regulation, including the idea of partial relief, institutional liability, statutes of limitations for borrowers to file claims and for the Department of Education (ED) to initiate recovery proceedings from schools, and administrative forbearance.

Despite the growing number of students acquiring master’s degrees, there is still little data on the potential earnings associated with graduate programs. Without this information, prospective students cannot make financially-informed decisions before investing in further schooling, according to a new paper by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

NASFAA seeks to compile a repository of member-submitted position descriptions for financial aid office positions. Please feel free to submit position descriptions for use as templates to assist your colleagues in developing positions descriptions for their own office. You may submit this form more than once if you have multiple descriptions to share. We will remove any identifying information about your institution before publishing the position descriptions. Submissions will be made available in the Member-Generated Content Library soon.

This application package is used by institutions of higher education, partnerships between nonprofit educational organizations and institutions of higher education, and public and private nonprofit organizations, to apply for grants under the Title VI UISFL program. Information submitted in this collection will be used during the peer review to evaluate and score the applications, and to make funding decisions.

"In the middle of an intense political fight about the program that shields from deportation young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children, a federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction late Tuesday ordering the Trump administration to start the program back up again," The New York Times reports.

"The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether the ethics code of the National Association for College Admission Counseling violates federal antitrust law," Inside Higher Ed reports.

"Proposed changes to the law that governs the US higher education system could undermine universities’ efforts to increase access for low-income students and increase fraud within the sector, experts have warned," according to Times Higher Education. 

"Sarah Pool sings loudly in the car, escapes into books and tries, best as she can, not to think too much about the monster outside her door. The one who demands every extra cent she earns...Three years ago, when she finished her master’s degree, Sarah’s student loans totaled $60,000. She has paid steadily ever since and now owes $69,000 — more than twice the annual income she earns working as a children’s librarian," The Washington Post reports.

"Tennessee has received numerous accolades for its push over the past few years to increase college access. But a recent report on the retention and completion rates of the state’s most vulnerable college students show that access alone isn’t enough if Tennessee wants to reach its goal for 55 percent of adults to hold a degree or certificate by 2025," Inside Higher Ed reports. 

"New Jersey lawmakers have sent Gov. Chris Christie four more bills aimed at helping students pay for college, either through loans or state grants. They fell short of passing all the measures introduced 18 months ago in an effort to rein in the state’s student loan agency, however," according to the NJ Spotlight. 

"The first monthly employment report of the new year pegged the unemployment rate at just 4.1 percent. Low unemployment means job openings are harder to fill. This may force employers to become less choosy about who they hire. That’s good news for jobseekers overall; for jobseekers without a bachelor’s degree, it’s great news," Preston Cooper writes in an opinion article for Forbes. 

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