Reporting and Disclosure Requirements -

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Gainful Employment

• Reporting and Disclosure Requirements -
• Module 1

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Agenda

• Final Rule published in the Federal Register
  October 29, 2010
• Program Integrity
• Disclosure requirements effective
• July 1, 2011
• Reporting requirements effective
• October 1, 2011
• Resources

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Gainful Employment (GE)

• GE provisions apply to all programs intended to
  prepare students for gainful employment in a
  recognized occupation
• All programs of study offered by for-profit
  schools, except certain bachelors degree liberal
  arts programs
• All non-degree programs offered by all other
  schools
• Some teacher certification programs

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Disclosure Requirements
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Disclosure Requirements

• Effective July 1, 2011, the school must disclose
  all of the following information to prospective
  students for each of its GE programs
• 1) Occupations (by name and SOC code) the
• program prepares students to enter plus links to
  those occupational profiles on ONET.
• 668.6(b)(1)(i)

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Disclosure Requirements

• 2) On-time graduation (completion) rate for
  students who complete the program
• students who completed the program within
  normal time
• ___________________________________________
  X 100
• students who completed the program during most
  recently completed award year
• 668.6(b)(1)(ii) and 668.6(c)

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Disclosure Requirements

• Normal time is defined in 668.41(a) as the
  time required to complete program requirements
  typically four years for a Bachelors degree and
  two years for an Associates degree
• 668.41(a)

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Disclosure Requirements

• 3) Tuition and fees charged to students who
  complete the program within the normal time,
  cost of books and supplies and, if applicable,
  cost of room and board
• School also may include the cost of
  transportation and living expenses
• 668.6(b)(1)(iii)

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Disclosure Requirements

• 4) Placement rate for students who complete the
  program
• Required by State or accrediting agency to
  calculate placement rate at the program level -
  disclose that rate
• Required by State or accrediting agency to
  calculate placement rate at institutional level
  -apply same calculation at program level
• Use NCES methodology once published
• 668.6(b)(1)(iv)

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Disclosure Requirements

• 5) Median loan debt incurred by students who
  complete the program.
• Separately identify
• Title IV loan debt
• Private education loan debt
• Institutional financing plan debt owed upon
  program completion
• 668.6(b)(1)(v)

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Disclosure Requirements

• For each GE program, this disclosure information
  must be
• Included in the schools promotional materials
  made available to prospective students
• Posted on the schools website
• Prominently posted on the homepage of the
  programs website (simple and meaningful manner)
• 668.6(b)(2)(i)-(ii)

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Disclosure Requirements

• Provide a prominent link from any other webpage
  that contains general, admissions, or academic
  information about the program to the homepage of
  the programs website
• Display the information on the schools website
  in an open format that can be retrieved,
  downloaded, indexed, and searched
• 668.6(b)(2)(ii)-(iii)

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Disclosure Requirements

• Use EDs disclosure form when the form becomes
  available
• 668.6(b)(2)(iv)

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Reporting Requirements
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Reporting Requirements

• Effective October 1, 2011, the school must
  annually report to ED
• Information that identifies each student enrolled
  in a GE program during the award year, and
• Information that identifies the school
• 668.6(a)(1)(i)(A)

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Reporting Requirements

• Additionally, for each student who began
  attendance during the award year, the school must
  report the program name and CIP code
• And for each student who completed a program
  during the award year, the school must report
• Program name and CIP code,
• Date student completed the program
• 668.6(a)(1)(i)(B)-(C)

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Reporting Requirements

• And for completers, the school also must report
• Amount student received from private education
  loans and institutional financing plans,
• If student matriculated to a higher-credentialed
  program at the school, and
• If student matriculated to a higher-credentialed
  program at another school, if that information is
  available.

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Reporting Requirements

• The school also must report to ED by program
  name and CIP code
• Total number of students enrolled in the program
  at the end of the award year
• Information identifying those students
• 668.6(a)(1)(ii)
• 668.6(a)(3)(ii)

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Reporting Deadline

• No later than October 1, 2011, schools must
  report required information for award years
• 2006-2007 (if available)
• 2007-2008
• 2008-2009
• 2009-2010
• 668.6(a)(2)

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Reporting Deadline

• Federal Register notice dated August 2, 2011
• No later than November 15, 2011, schools must
  report required information for the 2010-2011
  award year
• For each subsequent year, ED will publish
  submission deadlines in the Federal Register

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Reporting Deadline

• If a school is unable to provide ED with any of
  the required data, it must provide to ED an
  explanation of the reason the data is not
  available
• Electronic Announcement 18 (August 9, 2011)
  provides additional details
• 668.6(a)(2)(ii)

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Resources
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Resources

• Final Rule published October 29, 2010
• http//www.ifap.ed.gov/fregisters/FR102910Final.ht
  ml
• The Departments Gainful Employment Information
  page
• http//ifap.ed.gov/GainfulEmploymentInfo/
• index.html
• Gainful Employment FAQs
• http//ifap.ed.gov/GainfulEmploymentInfo/2011GEFAQ
  .html
• To submit questions to ED, email
• GE-Questions_at_ed.gov

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Resources

• NCHELP resources
• GE Final Rule side-by-side analysis
• http//www.nchelp.org/?pagee0198
• Integrated regulations that include the Program
  Integrity and GE Final Rules
• http//www.nchelp.org/?pagee0053
• GE training modules
• http//www.nchelp.org/?pagee0032b