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		<title>New regulations for ATB students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 23, 2011, President Obama signed H.R. 2055, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act”, into law (Click here to view the entire statute). In so doing, Congress and the President approved a provision that will deny access to all Federal student financial aid to individuals without a high school diploma, a GED or without equivalent homeschooling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need help filling out your annual report?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACCET requires all institutions to complete their annual report (Document 12.b) on our new AMS database system. For help in filling out this form online. Please view our online tutorial]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Aid Newsletter December 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACCET offers a quarterly Financial Aid newsletter as a service to our institutions who are eligible for or are applying for Title IV funding. This issue covers gainful employment, notes from the FSA conference, and federal limits on program lengths. ACCET Financial Aid Newsletter – December 2011 (PDF)]]></description>
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		<title>Review ACCET’s policy documents with our Call for Comment Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review the following documents up for review at the April 2012 Commission meeting. Institutions can review documents and make comments on our Call for Comment Survey &#8211; April 2012: Documents for Review in April 2012 Document 3.IEP – Intensive English Programs (IEP) Template Document 11 – Policies and Practices of the Accrediting Commission Document 18.IEP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Aid Newsletter September 2011</title>
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		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/financial-aid-newsletter-september-2011#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACCET offers a quarterly Financial Aid newsletter as a service to our institutions who are eligible for or are applying for Title IV funding. ACCET Financial Aid Newsletter – September 2011 (PDF)]]></description>
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		<title>Nominating Committee Report</title>
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		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/nominating-committee-report#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 1, 2011, the Nominating Committee conducted its review of two candidates for the two full-term Institutional Commissioner positions that will become open following the Annual Business Meeting this fall. Following its review of resumes for Mr. Res Helfer and Ms. Peggy Tiderman, in conjunction with subsequent interviews with each of the candidates via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the News: A Nudge for the Neediest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Inside the Higher Ed study of impact of need-based financial aid finds that extra grants helped the students least likely to succeed, but did little to boost overall academic progress. Two students, both eligible for Pell Grants for the needy, are randomly chosen to receive extra need-based aid as they start as first-time, full-time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the News: &#8220;What the &#8216;Gainful Employment&#8217; Rule Means for Colleges&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Chronicle editors and reporters describe the impact of the Education Department&#8217;s controversial new regulation—and what&#8217;s likely to happen next with it.&#8221; A softened final version of a controversial new &#8220;gainful employment&#8221; regulation, released Thursday by the Education Department, has both Wall Street and Capitol Hill buzzing. One financial analyst has called the rule &#8220;a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Aid Newsletter May 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/financial-aid-newsletter-may-2011</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/financial-aid-newsletter-may-2011#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 14:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACCET offers a quarterly Financial Aid newsletter as a service to our institutions who are eligible for or are applying for Title IV funding. This issue covers the new Program Integrity requirements and highlights from the 2010 FSA Conference. ACCET Financial Aid Newsletter – May 2011 (PDF)]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Program Integrity Regulations and ACCET&#8217;s Review and Evaluation of Clock Hours/Credit Hours</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/program-integrity-accet-update</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/program-integrity-accet-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 21, 2011, ACCET sent its accredited Title IV institutions an Important Update – Program Integrity Regulations and ACCET’s Review and Evaluation of Clock Hour and Credit Hours alerting them to new and revised policies, documents, applications, and forms approved by the ACCET Commission in April 2011 to address the regulations pertaining to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACCET Annual Conference Registration Now Open</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/accet-annual-conference-registration-now-open</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/accet-annual-conference-registration-now-open#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registration for the 2011 Annual Conference is now open. The Conference will be held October 26-28 at the Westin La Paloma Hotel in Tucson, Arizona. We can&#8217;t wait to see you there! To register for the Conference, please download a registration form and send the completed form to Anneka Swamy by email at aswamy@accet.org or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual Completion &amp; Placement Statistics Reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/annual-completion-placement-statistics-reporting</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/annual-completion-placement-statistics-reporting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An essential requirement for maintaining ongoing accredited status as a vocational institution includes the timely submission of annual reports, including ACCET Document 12.c – Annual Statistical Self-Evaluation, ACCET Document 28.1(s) – Completion and Placement Statistics, and ACCET Document 29 &#8211; Catalog Checklist and Guidelines. At the December 2010 Commission meeting, the Commission voted to extend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Program Integrity Webinars</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/program-integrity-webinars</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/program-integrity-webinars#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACCET is sponsoring three different webinars on the Program Integrity Regulations as a free service to its Title IV member institutions. Because of the challenge of fully understanding the new federal regulations and complying with them by the July 1, 2011 effective date, we strongly suggest that both School Directors and Financial Aid Directors participate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Council on Education sends open letter to USDE on Credit Hour and State Authorization regulations</title>
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		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/american-council-on-education-sends-open-letter-to-usde-on-credit-hour-regulations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Council on Education (ACE), on behalf of more than 70 other higher education associations and accrediting agencies including Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and EDUCAUSE, sent open letters to the U.S. Department of Education expressing the deep concerns in the higher education community about the federal definition of the credit hour and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 2011 Financial Aid Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/february-2011-financial-aid-newsletter</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/february-2011-financial-aid-newsletter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kschreyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACCET offers a quarterly Financial Aid newsletter as a service to our institutions who are eligible for or are applying for Title IV funding. This issue covers the new Program Integrity requirements and highlights from the 2010 FSA Conference. ACCET Financial Aid Newsletter – Feb 2011 (PDF)]]></description>
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		<title>In the News: &#8220;Education Department To Clarify Controversial Regulations&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/in-the-news/in-the-news-education-department-to-clarify-controversial-regulations</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/in-the-news/in-the-news-education-department-to-clarify-controversial-regulations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of Education is expected to issue a &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; letter clarifying some of the controversial regulations issued in October. The U.S. Department of Education will issue clarifications on a series of higher-education regulations it released last fall, succumbing to pressure from colleges that say the rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 2010 Commission Report</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/december-2010-commission-report</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/december-2010-commission-report#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commission Report for the December 2010 Commission Meeting is now available to our membership and the public. We encourage our membership to review the following documents: Accrediting Commission Report Summary Statistics of Actions Taken by the Commission Final Actions Taken by the Commission In addition, we are soliciting comments on proposed revisions to ACCET [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Annual Conference Rescheduled</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/2011-annual-conference-rescheduled</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/2011-annual-conference-rescheduled#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You Spoke and We Listened!! Due to a number of concerns with the 2011 ACCET Annual Conference being scheduled over Halloween, we worked with the hotel and are pleased to announce that the dates are now revised as follows: October 26-28, 2011 The Westin La Paloma Hotel 3800 East Sunrise Drive Tucson, AZ 85718 Online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Comment &#8211; April 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/news/call-for-comment-april-2011</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/news/call-for-comment-april-2011#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACCET’s Standards and Policy Review Committee has proposed the following revised and new policy documents, to be reviewed by the ACCET membership and then voted on by the Commission at its April 2011 meeting: Document 15 – Credit Hour Clock Hour Policy &#8211; New Document Document 18 – Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy Document 18 Attachment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The News: GAO Revises Report on For-profit Colleges</title>
		<link>http://www.accet.org/in-the-news/in-the-news-gao-revises-report-on-for-profit-colleges</link>
		<comments>http://www.accet.org/in-the-news/in-the-news-gao-revises-report-on-for-profit-colleges#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that the Government Accountability Office has revised its highly critical report of admissions practices in the for-profit education sector: &#8220;The Government Accountability Office has revised portions of a report it released last summer on recruiting practices in for-profit higher education, softening several examples from an undercover investigation but standing by its [...]]]></description>
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