Last week, we blogged about the FAFSA screw up, the federal website/application for student financial aid.* The tale continues. From Inside Higher Ed:
The U.S. Education Department is relaxing a number of requirements so that colleges and universities dealing with delayed student financial aid information can better focus on processing aid applications and delivering aid packages to students. The department announced today that it will reduce the proportion of financial aid forms it reviews for potential inaccuracy, suspend all new reviews of colleges’ compliance with financial aid rules and offer institutions flexibility in their applications to renew their eligibility to access federal financial aid programs. Those changes build on the department’s strategy, announced last week, to support colleges with the update to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which has been plagued by delays and technical glitches...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2024/02/13/us-reduce-requirements-colleges-due-fafsa-delays.
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*As we noted before, heads should roll in DC for this snafu. But none have or likely will.
https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2024/02/delayed-deadline.html.
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