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U.S. Department of Education Rulemaking Process

 What: The U.S. Department of Education develops Federal Regulations to implement aspects of the Higher Education Act, which is Federal law.  The process to create the language for…

Foundational Principles for Interstate Compliance

 State ComplianceFoundational Principles: For purposes of consumer protection and protecting state interests, any activity that occurs in a state other than the home state of the institution, the…

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Time to Review Proposed Regulations & Consider Public Comment

July brought us the next chapter chronicling the U.S. Department of Education rulemaking process. WCET and the State Authorization Network (SAN) have been following the rulemaking process, which began with the preview of the second…

Reasonable Cause and Voluntary Membership: The Key Objectives When Institutions Wish to Change a Primary Accreditor

Due to an important federal regulatory change that became effective July 1, 2020, which expanded formerly “regional accreditors” beyond specific geographic areas for institutional accreditors and a new state law in Florida…

What’s Happened to Those Federal Regs on Professional Licensure and Reciprocity?

In March we alerted you to two proposed changes to U.S. Department of Education regulations from its Negotiated Rulemaking process earlier this year. These proposals would have a great impact on the digital / distance…