Join Ed Cramp of Duane Morris and Christine Gordon, AACS President, in this thoughtful discussion on overtime charges best practices. Register Here Today

For more than 20 years educators from around the nation turn the tables each summer and go from teacher to student at the CEA Annual Convention. This year’s convention, which is July 30-August 2, includes an addition of an Admissions & Marketing track, making it the first-ever CEA & AMP Convention. This year’s theme is Stars in Education, and it’s a great chance to learn new teaching methods while sharing your own best practices that make you a star in the classroom. Sunday and Monday will include back-to-back breakout sessions, an Exhibit Hall featuring dozens of industry-leading manufacturers, distributors and product lines, and breakfast and lunch served daily. View the Schedule & Register Here Today

As we begin March, 40 state legislatures are actively meeting this week.  In order to keep you apprised of the latest developments, please find a brief report of state bills of interest to barbering and cosmetology schools below.

With just two weeks before the third, and final, session of the 2016 Defense to Borrower Repayment Federal Negotiated Rulemaking meeting on March 16-18, 2016, AACS alternate negotiator Chris DeLuca, the GRC, and a broader circle of representatives of the for-profit community – led by lead negotiator Dennis Cariello – have presented a targeted list of recommendations to the 11 Issue Papers, complete with revised regulatory language. Key issues where the community is at odds with the Department include:

 

• The inclusion of issues seeking to significantly revise the financial responsibility and administrative capability regulations to include required Letters of Credit for a wide range of vague and overly restrictive list of institutional errors or omissions;
• Efforts to repeal the inclusion of arbitration clauses in institution's enrollment contracts; and
• more general discussions on the definitions, process, and procedures for determining whether or not a student, or class of students, is eligible to receive a write off of their loan obligations.

The for-profit community's submission to the Department and other negotiators is available for your review here and here.

While much of last Thursday's Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee Confirmation Hearing focused on Acting Secretary of Education John King's ability to implement the recently enacted revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education law, several lines of questioning once again showed that the Senators are also focused upon concerns within higher education as well. A complete transcript of the hearing, with higher education issues highlighted for your review is available here.

Seeking some nail inspiration? Look no further than Celina Ryden’s nail diary entry, "If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It." Celina is competing in the CND Next Top Nail Artist competition at America’s Beauty Show. Encourage your nail students and educators to share photos of their hands-down masterpieces on Instgram and Pivot Point will generously donate $1 to the Beauty Changes Lives Foundation for each photo with the hashtags #SHOUTYOURBEAUTY or #BEAUTYCHANGESLIVES.

This Harvard Business Review author and New York Times interviewee shares her insights on what it takes to create viral content in this article found on inc.com.

Did you miss last week’s webinar? You can access the Under Awarding: Staying Compliant Webinar Recording here (you will be asked to enter your name and email address to access the recording). Note the webinar starts about 20 seconds in to the recording.