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News From CECU on Guidance
on Gainful Employment Enforcement
June 30, 2017
Colleagues:
The Department of Education has just announced the long-expected and anticipated guidance on Gainful Employment enforcement during the Negotiated Rulemaking process.
The new guidance delays until July 1, 2018 any enforcement of the disclosure requirements; and extends the deadline for earnings appeals. If you have not yet seen this information, we encourage you to go to the following Department link: Link to PDF.
We want to commend the Department for taking this action. We have issued the following statement to the press:
“We applaud the Department of Education for delaying the gainful employment rule. The rule is clearly flawed. Recent studies and court rulings prove this rule needs to be revisited. Now, through public comments and negotiated rulemaking, all stakeholders involved have a chance to identify the shortcomings of this regulation. We look forward to working with the Department and others to constructively develop a new source of information for all college career programs that shares with students the incomes for their chosen profession and the average amount of debt for their academic studies.”
We look forward to working with all of you as we begin a new Negotiated Rulemaking process that will achieve the kind of information that is helpful to students and fair to schools.
Sincerely,
Steve Gunderson
President & CEO
on Gainful Employment Enforcement
June 30, 2017
Colleagues:
The Department of Education has just announced the long-expected and anticipated guidance on Gainful Employment enforcement during the Negotiated Rulemaking process.
The new guidance delays until July 1, 2018 any enforcement of the disclosure requirements; and extends the deadline for earnings appeals. If you have not yet seen this information, we encourage you to go to the following Department link: Link to PDF.
We want to commend the Department for taking this action. We have issued the following statement to the press:
“We applaud the Department of Education for delaying the gainful employment rule. The rule is clearly flawed. Recent studies and court rulings prove this rule needs to be revisited. Now, through public comments and negotiated rulemaking, all stakeholders involved have a chance to identify the shortcomings of this regulation. We look forward to working with the Department and others to constructively develop a new source of information for all college career programs that shares with students the incomes for their chosen profession and the average amount of debt for their academic studies.”
We look forward to working with all of you as we begin a new Negotiated Rulemaking process that will achieve the kind of information that is helpful to students and fair to schools.
Sincerely,
Steve Gunderson
President & CEO
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More Information about Gainful Employment Regulation and the Borrowers Defense to Repayment Regulation | June 20, 2017 |
The US Department of Education has announced that it will take action on both the Gainful Employment regulation and the Borrowers Defense to Repayment Regulation. These announcements were very positive steps to begin the process of trying to provide higher education institutions, especially career schools, some federal regulatory relief. NEPCSA, along with many other organizations and schools, have been advocating for these actions.
While this announcement sets up the process to potentially achieve regulatory relief, there is still a lot of work to do before regulatory relief is realized.
Below is a summary of the issues, and what schools should do to both prepare for compliance to the regulations, and to consider advocating on these issues.
Gainful Employment
The Department of Education announced that they would initiate a new negotiated rulemaking session to revisit the Gainful Employment regulation. The Department has acknowledged that they have significant concerns with the regulation and a new negotiated rulemaking is the proper legal avenue to use to fix these concerns. No one can predict the result of this new rulemaking. However, the White House is opposed to over-regulation and the new Department’s leadership supports career education. Given these changes, the rulemaking process should prove to be much fairer than what occurred in 2014.
Moreover, it is hoped that the new final rule will be more equitable, and will fix many of the problems in the existing regulation.
A Precautionary Note
While the announcement on Gainful Employment is good news, the Department has NOT yet delayed implementation of the current regulations.
Unless the Department provides additional guidance between now and July 1, 2017, the current rule is in effect unit the new rulemaking process is finalized. Until further notice, schools should continue to plan for compliance to the rule set to take effect on July 1.
Over the next two weeks, NEPCSA and many other organizations and schools will work to persuade the Department to delay implementation of the current regulation while the new rulemaking process occurs.
The Department has provided schools and other interested parties the opportunity to provide comment on the regulation to be considered as part of the new rulemaking.
NEPCSA members are encouraged to provide comments on these regulations. There are two ways to comment:
Your comments are critical to the success of this effort. This sector has been working for several years to have the federal government make changes to this regulation. They have now started the “redo” process, and it is now your turn to help create new regulations.
Borrowers Defense to Repayment
The US Department of Education has also announced that they will initiate a new negotiated rulemaking session to revisit Borrowers Defense to Repayment Regulation. The Department has acknowledged that they have significant concerns with the regulation, and a new negotiated rulemaking is the proper legal avenue to use to fix these concerns.
Unlike with the Gainful Employment announcement, the Department has provided for a "partial" delay on the implementation of the Borrowers Defense to Repayment Regulation. The Department indicated that this delay was warranted as a result of litigation filed by the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools (CAPPS).
Click here to read the announcement from Duane Morris, the law firm representing CAPPS.
While this announcement sets up the process to potentially achieve regulatory relief, there is still a lot of work to do before regulatory relief is realized.
Below is a summary of the issues, and what schools should do to both prepare for compliance to the regulations, and to consider advocating on these issues.
Gainful Employment
The Department of Education announced that they would initiate a new negotiated rulemaking session to revisit the Gainful Employment regulation. The Department has acknowledged that they have significant concerns with the regulation and a new negotiated rulemaking is the proper legal avenue to use to fix these concerns. No one can predict the result of this new rulemaking. However, the White House is opposed to over-regulation and the new Department’s leadership supports career education. Given these changes, the rulemaking process should prove to be much fairer than what occurred in 2014.
Moreover, it is hoped that the new final rule will be more equitable, and will fix many of the problems in the existing regulation.
A Precautionary Note
While the announcement on Gainful Employment is good news, the Department has NOT yet delayed implementation of the current regulations.
Unless the Department provides additional guidance between now and July 1, 2017, the current rule is in effect unit the new rulemaking process is finalized. Until further notice, schools should continue to plan for compliance to the rule set to take effect on July 1.
Over the next two weeks, NEPCSA and many other organizations and schools will work to persuade the Department to delay implementation of the current regulation while the new rulemaking process occurs.
The Department has provided schools and other interested parties the opportunity to provide comment on the regulation to be considered as part of the new rulemaking.
NEPCSA members are encouraged to provide comments on these regulations. There are two ways to comment:
- You may provide up to five minutes of comment in person at a public hearing scheduled for July 10 in Washington DC. If you wish to provide comments in person, please register ASAP. Opportunities to speak will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis, so the quicker you register, the stronger chance you will have to be added to the agenda. To register, click here to send an email to the Department. Please provide a brief description of what you wish to say, and whether you have a preferred time of day to speak.
- If you prefer to submit written comments, please send them by July 12, 2017. It is important to note that all written comments will be posted publicly and will not accepted by email or fax. To comment in writing, please click here and proceed to Page 2 for instructions to comment in writing.
Your comments are critical to the success of this effort. This sector has been working for several years to have the federal government make changes to this regulation. They have now started the “redo” process, and it is now your turn to help create new regulations.
Borrowers Defense to Repayment
The US Department of Education has also announced that they will initiate a new negotiated rulemaking session to revisit Borrowers Defense to Repayment Regulation. The Department has acknowledged that they have significant concerns with the regulation, and a new negotiated rulemaking is the proper legal avenue to use to fix these concerns.
Unlike with the Gainful Employment announcement, the Department has provided for a "partial" delay on the implementation of the Borrowers Defense to Repayment Regulation. The Department indicated that this delay was warranted as a result of litigation filed by the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools (CAPPS).
Click here to read the announcement from Duane Morris, the law firm representing CAPPS.
Here is some good news from the US Department of Education | June 15, 2017
The Department of Education has published notice to establish new federal negotiated rulemaking on gainful employment and borrower defense to repayment.
Click on link below for details.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/15/education-department-hit-pause-two-primary-obama-regulations-aimed-profits
Please see link below for official announcement on GE and BDTR.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2017-12555.pdf
Click on link below for details.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/15/education-department-hit-pause-two-primary-obama-regulations-aimed-profits
Please see link below for official announcement on GE and BDTR.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2017-12555.pdf
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NEPCSA recently launched a new course in our Online Training CenterED129 – Practical Applications for the Flipped Classroom is a new course available in the NEPCSA Online Training Center designed to provide participants with an overview of various practical applications for the flipped classroom. The flipped classroom, also referred to as the inverted or reversed classroom, has been implemented in many classroom settings. This course will provide more information about engaging pedagogical models, just-in-time teaching, collaborative teaching and learning, and various components of the flipped classroom.
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