"The Education Department’s Office of Federal Student Aid is warning hundreds of institutions that their access to federal grants and loans could be at risk if they fail to properly submit required student outcomes data by early 2027," Inside Higher Ed reports.

... “Compiling the necessary components for this reporting likely has and will continue to place an even more acute administrative burden on lower-resourced schools that were already stretched thin,” said Karen McCarthy, vice president of federal relations at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

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Publication Date: 8/19/2026