On Monday, January 29, the U.S. Department of Education provided the Committee 2 – Gainful Employment negotiators, including AACS representative Neal Heller, with a series of eight updated Issues Papers detailing proposed revisions to the current GE regulations. Among many significant revisions contained in the draft proposals, there is none larger than a clear shift away from the regulation being used as a determinant of a limited scope of programs’ eligibility to participate in the Title IV programs, to the use of a blanket disclosure provision requiring all programs eligible to administer Title IV programs funds to provide general information about each program (including outcomes measures by program length, hours, and campus), as well as notices to students and prospective students for each "low-performing" eligible educational program offered by an institution in comparison to the standard.

The Issue Papers are now available for public review on the Department’s website. AACS member institutions seeking to review the documents can obtain them by clicking here.