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
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
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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
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
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
Mid-pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has weighed in on controversial new requirements for reporting college and university foreign gifts and contracts. ED has:
•Published the disclosure form it included with...more
What should we do if we learn that a member of our school, college, or university community has been exposed to or tested positive for COVID-19?
First, contact your local health officials for guidance and follow relevant...more
After years of insisting that nursing colleges separately incorporate from related hospitals and hospital systems, causing some schools to relinquish Medicare “pass-through” funding, the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has...more