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NAICU Washington Update July 29, 2011
Formerly Week in Review | Full stories available in a composite PDF file on theNAICU Web site
As Washington hurtles toward August 2, the House and Senate leadership continues to work on a debt ceiling and deficit reduction deal to avert a domestic and global economic crisis. A key pawn in the negotiations is Pell Grant funding. Plans from both House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Harry Reid include funding for the Pell Grant program for the 2012-13 award year - but no one can be certain how this will all play out as negotiations continue.
Following Senate approval, the House has voted unanimously to approve the "Restoring GI Bill Fairness Act of 2011." The legislation provides a "hold-harmless" for veterans who would otherwise see their Post-9/11 GI Bill tuition-and-fee benefits reduced under legislation enacted last December. While most veterans will receive increased benefits as a result of the December changes, those in seven states would have faced reduced benefits without this new legislation.
Continuing his series of public inquiries into the growth and poor student results of for-profit colleges, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, presided over a roundtable of witnesses with various view points on the issue on July 21. The bottom line: Harkin intends to make meaningful changes.
Last week, the National Council on Teacher Quality released its most recent study on student teaching, which will feed into NCTQ's bigger rankings project. Few of the programs examined received a passing grade, which has fueled criticism of the group's methodology. The NCTQ assessment, which looked at the student teacher component across 134 teacher education programs, will be used to determine letter grades to appear in U.S. News and World Report rankings.
The Department of Education has issued a document, Addressing Emergencies on Campus, providing guidance to campuses regarding their campus safety policies. The 16-page publication discusses the application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) in emergency situations. It also includes information about a number of campus security provisions added as part of the Higher Education Act reauthorization in 2008.
About NAICU Washington Update
Daniel J. Carey, President, Edgewood College, Chair, NAICU Board of Directors
David L. Warren, President
Sarah Flanagan, Vice President for Government Relations and Policy Development
Roland H. King, Vice President for Public Affairs and Editor
Washington Update is available to NAICU member presidents and their staff via e-mail upon request, and is archived on the NAICU Web site, both as individual stories and as a complete-issue PDF file, formatted for printing,
To subscribe, or for member log-in user name and password, e-mail roland@naicu.edu.
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
1025 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036
(202) 785-8866, Fax (202) 835-0003
www.naicu.edu
© 2011 by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
NAICU Washington Update July 29, 2011
Formerly Week in Review | Full stories available in a composite PDF file on theNAICU Web site
As Washington hurtles toward August 2, the House and Senate leadership continues to work on a debt ceiling and deficit reduction deal to avert a domestic and global economic crisis. A key pawn in the negotiations is Pell Grant funding. Plans from both House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Harry Reid include funding for the Pell Grant program for the 2012-13 award year - but no one can be certain how this will all play out as negotiations continue.
Following Senate approval, the House has voted unanimously to approve the "Restoring GI Bill Fairness Act of 2011." The legislation provides a "hold-harmless" for veterans who would otherwise see their Post-9/11 GI Bill tuition-and-fee benefits reduced under legislation enacted last December. While most veterans will receive increased benefits as a result of the December changes, those in seven states would have faced reduced benefits without this new legislation.
Continuing his series of public inquiries into the growth and poor student results of for-profit colleges, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, presided over a roundtable of witnesses with various view points on the issue on July 21. The bottom line: Harkin intends to make meaningful changes.
Last week, the National Council on Teacher Quality released its most recent study on student teaching, which will feed into NCTQ's bigger rankings project. Few of the programs examined received a passing grade, which has fueled criticism of the group's methodology. The NCTQ assessment, which looked at the student teacher component across 134 teacher education programs, will be used to determine letter grades to appear in U.S. News and World Report rankings.
The Department of Education has issued a document, Addressing Emergencies on Campus, providing guidance to campuses regarding their campus safety policies. The 16-page publication discusses the application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) in emergency situations. It also includes information about a number of campus security provisions added as part of the Higher Education Act reauthorization in 2008.
About NAICU Washington Update
Daniel J. Carey, President, Edgewood College, Chair, NAICU Board of Directors
David L. Warren, President
Sarah Flanagan, Vice President for Government Relations and Policy Development
Roland H. King, Vice President for Public Affairs and Editor
Washington Update is available to NAICU member presidents and their staff via e-mail upon request, and is archived on the NAICU Web site, both as individual stories and as a complete-issue PDF file, formatted for printing,
To subscribe, or for member log-in user name and password, e-mail roland@naicu.edu.
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
1025 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036
(202) 785-8866, Fax (202) 835-0003
www.naicu.edu
© 2011 by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
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