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It’s Up to Us to Build It: Lessons Learned from Five Years in the Vanguard of CBE
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 11/13/2019
We’ve written several posts on the negotiated rulemaking process and updates to state authorization and accreditation regulations. Today we hear from another participant in the innovation negotiated rulemaking process on that experience and her institution’s take on new models of […]
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Final Federal Regulations for State Authorization Released!
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 11/4/2019
Without a moment to spare, on Friday, November 1, 2019, the Federal Register shared the release of the long awaited 2019 Final Federal Regulations with the official and concise title: Student Assistance General Provisions, The Secretary’s Recognition of Accrediting Agencies, […]
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Everything You Need to Know (But Are Afraid to Ask) About The 2016 Distance Education Regulations
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 7/31/2019
Last week’s announcement by the Department of Education that “consistent with the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California…. As of May 26, 2019, the amendments to 34 CFR 600.2, 600.9 (c), 668.2, and the […]
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Strategies to Address ED’s Guidance on State Authorization Complaint Processes
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 7/23/2019
As if we needed more excitement! The Department of Education uttered its first peep regarding the impact of the U.S. District Court’s April 26, 2019 ruling of a vacatur of the delay of the 2016 Federal Regulations relating to State […]
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New Federal Regulations Ready for Your Comments – Accreditation-Related Regulations
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/14/2019
This is the second of two posts on the new regulations that the U.S. Department of Education released in the Federal Register earlier this week. The first post focused on state authorization and student notification issues. This post focuses on […]
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New Federal Regulations Ready for Your Comments – State Authorization and Student Notifications
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/13/2019
The Federal Rulemaking process has taken its next step. The U.S. Department of Education released in the Federal Register a portion of the proposed regulations. This first set of regulations focuses on accreditation and state authorization. The proposed language came […]
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Negotiated Rulemaking: Accreditation, Student Identity Verification, Student Disclosures, and Other Proposed Regulations
Published by: Erin Noelle Walton | 5/10/2019
This is the fourth and final post in our blog post series on the results of the U.S. Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking process. You may recall that there were many issues covered by the negotiated rulemaking committee and to […]
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Negotiated Rulemaking: The Complexity of “Regular and Substantive Interaction”
Published by: Erin Noelle Walton | 4/26/2019
This is the third in our blog post series on the results of the U.S. Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking process. The first in the series focused an overview of process, issues, and next steps. The second covered rules for […]
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Negotiated Rulemaking: What Happened with State Authorization and Licensure Notifications?
Published by: Erin Noelle Walton | 4/17/2019
In this second of our blogs dedicated to exploring the outcomes of the recent negotiated rulemaking sessions, Cheryl Dowd and Russ Poulin focus on the state authorization for distance education language that transpired from those conversations. They also share some […]
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Negotiated Rulemaking Reaches Consensus: An Overview of Processes, Issues, and Next Steps
Published by: Erin Noelle Walton | 4/12/2019
In this first of several blogs dedicated to sharing the meaningful outcomes of the three-month negotiated rulemaking sessions, Cheryl Dowd and Russ Poulin announce some exciting news and provide an overall assessment of the process and results from these important […]