Yes. There are two categories of foreign schools for purposes of this Q&A, and both types can now provide online classes when a study abroad program is disrupted by Coronavirus. View the full answer to this question to learn more and search for answers to your other pressing regulatory and compliance questions, in NASFAA's AskRegs Knowledgebase.

Meet Christopher Pollard. Christopher has worked in financial aid for 14 years — beginning as a student customer service representative in the financial aid office at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga during his freshman year of college. His dedication to helping open the doors to higher education for more students, however, began even before his first job, when he served as a peer mentor at a local high school in Tennessee assisting high school seniors with the FAFSA and college admissions applications.

This AskRegs Knowledgebase Q&A has been updated to reflect June 16, 2020 updates made to the March 5, 2020 Electronic Announcement, which expands the following flexibilities for standard term programs and extends the timeframe for those flexibilities through the end of the academic year that includes December 31, 2020 or the end date for the COVID-19 federally declared emergency, whichever occurs later. View the full answer to this question to learn more and search for answers to your other pressing regulatory and compliance questions, in NASFAA's AskRegs Knowledgebase.

The Department of Education's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) on Wednesday announced it would be "assessing potential changes" to the implementation of the Annual Student Loan Acknowledgement (formerly named the Informed Borrower Tool), originally set to be put into place this spring. FSA said in an email to those registered for upcoming webinars on the implementation — which have now been canceled — that it will provide more information as soon as possible in an Electronic Announcement posted to the Information for Financial Aid Professionals (IFAP) website. FSA will also send information about rescheduling the webinar series through a Training Announcement to be posted on the IFAP website. Stay tuned to Today's News for updates.

Join us Thursday, April 2 at 2:00 p.m. ET for this special follow-up webinar as NASFAA President Justin Draeger and NASFAA staff from the AskRegs and policy teams review some of the most common questions related to Title IV aid and COVID-19. Time will be provided for an open Q&A during this 75-minute webinar. This webinar is free to members and non-members, but you must register in advance. Additional resources can be found on NASFAA's COVID-19 Web Center.

The Communications team is excited to welcome its newest member, Owen Daugherty. Owen comes to NASFAA from The Hill, where he has worked for the last year and a half, covering political news at the federal and state levels with a particular focus on the intersection of legislation and the federal budget, and how it impacts higher education. Owen graduated from The Ohio State University in 2018 with a degree in public affairs journalism. Fun fact: Owen is also an avid hiker. Please join us in welcoming Owen!

Federal Student Aid would like to remind the community that the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has updated the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes for 2020. The 2020 CIP codes list of eligible majors and their corresponding CIP code values is available on the NCES website at nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode.

The Teacher Loan Forgiveness (TLF) Application serves as the means by which an eligible Direct Loan or FFEL program borrower who has completed five consecutive years of qualifying teaching service applies for forgiveness of up to $5,000 or up to $17,500 of his or her eligible loans.

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