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CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

CECU leaders have been involved in multiple discussions with high-level officials within President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team. As part of these discussions, CECU was asked to submit a letter outlining CECU’s priorities and policy recommendations for the new administration’s Department of Education. After soliciting the views of the CECU membership, they crafted a letter and sent it to the Biden office.

To tell Student’s Stories the Sector will Need to Invest in Grassroots Digital Advocacy

To tell Student’s Stories the Sector will Need to Invest in Grassroots Digital Advocacy

Written from a presentation given at the CECU CEO Summit by Craig Pattee, Agenda Global
Craig Pattee discussed how grassroots is changing to digital advocacy, which is altering how lobbyists approach members of Congress. During the spring and summer of 2020, Pattee and CECU began a pilot program which successful reached Congressional members. This success happened through digital advocacy by telling the sectors’ students’ stories.

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

Outlook for Career Education During the Biden/Harris Administration

By Robert M. Keiser, Executive Director, Southeastern College
As the political pendulum swings once again, what is in store for a postsecondary education sector that is so profoundly impacted by federal politics? The Biden/Harris election will result in a more liberal education policy agenda and increased oversight of for-profit colleges and universities.

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

The Debate Over the 90/10 Calculation … it’s Like Arguing Over How to Design the Interior of a Home That is Built on Land With a Bad Foundation

By Aaron Shenck, Executive Director, PAPSA There are times 90/10 comes up for debate for further changes, and we are in one of those times right now. Quite frankly, the only debate that should be happening on this issue is when will the entire rule get scrapped?

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

The Higher Education Act and America’s Workforce

By Steve Gunderson, President and CEO, Career Education Colleges and Universities
Gunderson addresses the relationship between the Higher Education Act and America’s workforce. The article outlines how the U.S. will need 38.7 million new workers by 2026; yet, recent efforts in Congress aim to change the current 90/10 ratio rule, which would negatively affect students seeking career education, especially veterans.

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

Committee on Appropriation Hearing – Oversight of For-Profit Colleges: Protecting Students and Taxpayer Dollars from Predatory Practices

Testimony of Marc Jerome, President, Monroe College
We should be able to agree that students deserve policies that deter unethical behavior across all sectors and identify institutions in all sectors where student outcomes are poor. Simply put, our policies must protect students, especially low-income students of color, wherever they attend.

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

Whether it’s a Wave, Ripple, or Undertow … Position Your School to Handle all Political Currents

By Aaron Shenck, Executive Director, PAPSA
This article will briefly analyze the fall midterm elections, why its results and other elections matter to your institution, and then provide strategies and ideas for schools to help strengthen their political relationships and public standing in their communities.

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education Reform

Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education Reform
By Katherine Brodie, Kristina Gill, Chris Collins, Zach Perlman, Duane Morris LLP, Higher Education Practice Group (Washington, D.C.) This article provides an analysis of the head-spinning, sometimes confounding, and yet hopeful developments we have seen in Washington since the January 2017 start of the 115th Congress and the new Trump Administration.

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

New Gainful Employment Guidance Falls Well Short of Expectations

By Tom Netting, Co-Executive Director, CSPEN and Public Policy Advisory, Akerman LLP
As is all too often the case with Gainful Employment, we are once again left with as many questions as answers following the publication of the Gainful Employment Electronic Announcement #105 – Additional Time for Submission of an Alternate Earnings Appeal and to Comply with Gainful Employment (GE) Disclosure Requirements.

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden

How to Conduct a Legislative Visit and Why You Need to do it Now

Written by Barbara A. Schmitz from an interview by Jenny Faubert with Tom Netting, Executive Director, Central States Private Education Network
Netting says there are two opportunities left to make changes to or to replace or repeal the gainful employment regulation before the anticipated publication of the first gainful employment debt-to-earnings metrics in early 2017.

CECU Sends List of Priorities and Policy Recommendations to President-Elect Biden