The Chronicle: Education Department Plans Rule-Making Sessions to Deal With Some of Federal Commission’s Ideas
The U.S. Education Department announced on Friday that it will begin holding formal rule-making sessions with college leaders and other interested parties in December to determine what kind of regulatory changes can be made to enact some of the recommendations of the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
According to a notice in Friday’s Federal Register, the department will use the “negotiated rule-making” process to deal with the panel’s recommendations for streamlining the regulations that colleges must follow to participate in the federal student-aid programs and for “improving the administration of” those programs.
Inside Higher Ed: Regulatory Activism?
Few aspects of higher education took as many body blows from the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education as did the accreditation system, which the panel’s final report derided as having “significant shortcomings,” including stifling innovation, paying short shrift to student outcomes, and being secretive. And that was after criticism from earlier drafts, including a proposal to completely overhaul the system, had been softened.
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