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Negotiators made strides in tackling key issues in rewriting a federal gainful employment (GE) regulation on Wednesday, discussing the value of a process to develop sanctions, earnings appeals, and reporting requirements for institutions.

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As we enter the peak of gift-giving season, it’s time to celebrate the greatest gift of all (wink, wink): NASFAA compliance tools! Being a member of NASFAA has its perks, especially when it comes to having access to numerous compliance tools at your fingertips. Here is a small sample of NASFAA offerings that can help you effectively administer Title IV financial aid programs.

In the newest issue of the Journal of Student Financial Aid (JSFA), Sara Pingel and Dustin Weeden explore the relationship between state financial aid programs and the rigorous research required to ensure effective state policies. The authors argue that the responsibility to inform state policy falls on various stakeholders, such as state agencies, legislative staff, and financial aid professionals. Read the full article, which includes an exploration of how each of these players have an impact, and others in the latest issue of JSFA.

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"As the competing Republican tax plans from the House of Representatives and the Senate head to a conference committee that will square the differences and create a final piece of legislation, graduate students are worried," Inside Higher Ed reports. 

"DeVry University was once among the largest for-profit institutions in the country and the crown jewel in its parent company’s collection. But enrollments have fallen and the for-profit institution has seen multiple lawsuits over advertising, recruitment and job placement," Inside Higher Ed reports. "Now DeVry’s parent company -- Adtalem Global Education Inc. -- is transferring ownership of the institution, along with Keller Graduate School of Management, to Cogswell Education LLC. DeVry and Keller together enroll nearly 30,000 students."

"Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in inner-city Boston, Alexandra Bernadotte was the first person in her family to go to college. 'When the letter from Dartmouth came, we treated the moment almost as if we had won the lottery,' she says. Her parents, younger sister, grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins piled into 10 cars for the trip to New Hampshire to drop her off. But she says getting into college was easier than what followed," The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.

"The prospects for higher education are bleak, according to Moody’s Investors Service, a credit-rating agency that on Tuesday changed its outlook for the sector from 'stable' to 'negative,'" The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

"In her first weeks of graduate school, Akanksha Sharma had a problem: an ever-growing shopping list. Textbooks for classes, essentials for her new apartment, lab and activity fees, notebooks, folders, pens, graph paper, and so on: If there was any money left, she’d even consider buying something to eat," according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. "A paycheck was on the way for Ms. Sharma’s work as a research assistant at the University of Arizona. She just needed a place to deposit it. Fortunately, Wells Fargo Bank had a branch on campus, and various university materials described the company as its 'official banking vendor.' It was an easy choice."

Opinions

"As the holiday season begins, all through the house, not a creature is stirring…except for college-bound high school seniors agonizing over their college application essays. So it is fitting that in Congress, the House Education and Workforce Committee has introduced the Prosper Act for reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, which would make it easier and less confusing to choose and pay for college," Monica Herk, vice president of education research at the Committee for Economic Development, writes in an opinion piece for The Hill.

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