In the last several days, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) finally published three important updates on ED expectations under its extensive October 2023 Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment regulations...more
4/10/2024
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Effective July 1, 2024, institutions of higher education participating in Title IV Federal Student Aid programs must comply with the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) Financial Value Transparency and Gainful...more
2/8/2024
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The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools has triggered widespread debates about the propriety of their use, especially in education circles, where academic integrity and confidentiality...more
Building on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) September 2022 Supervisory Highlights on student loan servicing (questioning transcript withholding practices), the CFPB issued a September 2023 report on...more
On July 20, 2023, the CFPB published a report concerning the risks posed to consumers by employer-driven debt. Employer-driven debt is any form of financing arrangement where an employer extends credit or a lease to an...more
9/26/2023
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On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a nationwide injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from implementing its new borrower defense to repayment (BDR) rules. The BDR rules,...more
UPDATE: On April 11, the Department of Education (Department) published a blog post updating the latest Third-Party Services (TPS) Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) which was published on February 15, 2023 (updated February 28,...more
On Thursday, the Department of Education announced that, in certain circumstances, it will require leaders of institutions to assume personal liability as a condition of Title IV Federal Student Aid participation....more
UPDATE: On February 28, 2023, the Department updated the Dear Colleague Letter issued February 15, 2023 to establish a future effective date for the guidance, extend the public comment period, and extend the reporting...more
In addition to new guidance on third-party servicers, the U.S. Department of Education clarified its expectations for higher education institutions’ compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Cybersecurity Requirements...more
Wednesday’s U.S. Department of Education Dear Colleague Letter announces an expanded Department interpretation of the definition of Third-Party Servicer to include a new array of vendors providing student recruiting and...more
2/20/2023
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A medical school applicant recently filed suit, alleging that several Texas medical schools improperly rejected him by basing their admissions decisions on race and gender. The complaint asserts that these schools (along with...more
Update: On September 29, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued Supervisory Highlights Student Loan Servicing Special Edition, finding that blanket college and university policies of withholding transcripts...more
In the past, it has been common for an institution of higher education to withhold a student’s transcript when the student had outstanding liability to the school. Bankruptcy and various loan collection laws have long placed...more
On June 23, 2022—exactly fifty years after Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became the law of the land—the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released its latest and much anticipated Title IX Notice of Proposed...more
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which accredits graduate medical residency and fellowship programs, will require programs to offer six weeks of paid leave for residents/fellows, beginning on...more
In the wake of NCAA v. Alston, a student-athlete’s education-related benefits may impact the amount of Federal Student Aid the student-athlete receives.
According to the U.S. Department of Education rules, a student who...more
On January 20, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced new efforts to examine postsecondary schools’ institutional lending programs. Many colleges and universities offer in-house student loans,...more
In August 2020, the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) requirements went into effect for responding to sexual harassment in the programs and activities of elementary and secondary schools receiving ED funds. This followed...more
12/16/2021
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Since last year, the Husch Blackwell privacy attorneys have been working with various healthcare providers—from hospitals to hospices, to independent physician groups—to comply with the Information Blocking rule (the Rule)...more
4/30/2021
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The U.S. Department of Education (ED) Office of Inspector General (OIG) first issued guidance about upcoming audits of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF)...more
Via the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, signed into law on December 27, 2020, Congress allocated $23 billion in emergency relief aid for public and nonprofit colleges, universities, and their students—$9 billion more...more
On May 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (“ED” or “the Department”) released the long-anticipated final Title IX regulations, which have a significant impact on schools all across the country—both K-12 and higher...more
Update: On August 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education released extensive final regulations addressing, among other topics, Borrower Defense to Repayment reporting requirements. The new final regulations, effective July...more
Update on June 22, 2020:
On June 22, ED unveiled its new online portal for college and university reports of foreign gifts and contracts.
Original post on May 5, 2020:
Mid-pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education...more