Reporting Deadline on GE and FVT Pushed to 2025 | Policy Matters (September 2024)
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Reporting Deadline on GE and FVT Pushed to 2025
The Department of Education (ED) has announced a further delay in the reporting deadline for Gainful Employment (GE) and Financial Value Transparency (FVT) until early 2025. Initially extended to October 1, 2024, the deadline has now been pushed to January 15, 2025. This follows a series of calls from institutions and organizations including UPCEA, as well as a recent letter from a group of bipartisan senators asking for additional clarification and time to implement this reporting, especially given issues with FAFSA. ED aims to release the first complete GE/FVT results in time for the next award year to guide students’ college decisions. Read more.
A Collection of FAFSA Updates and Resources
- The Long-Awaited FAFSA Autopsy Is Here (Inside Higher Ed)
- “A government watchdog’s investigation into last year’s rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid found that Education Department officials failed to properly test and prepare the form and launched it despite signs that it was not ready for wide release—an oversight that proved disastrous.
The department’s missteps are detailed in two documents from the U.S. Government Accountability Office released Tuesday. Their findings were at the center of a House higher education subcommittee hearing Tuesday that featured testimony from two GAO officials, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pressed for answers about who was to blame for the failures and called for accountability.” Read more.
- “A government watchdog’s investigation into last year’s rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid found that Education Department officials failed to properly test and prepare the form and launched it despite signs that it was not ready for wide release—an oversight that proved disastrous.
- Secretary’s Cover Letter: A Focus on Improving the FAFSA Experience (US Department of Education)
Other News
- Putting the Basic Needs of Today’s Students on the Map: A Landscape Analysis of Policies and Strategies Across 37 States (Today’s Students Coalition)
- Lawsuit Takes Aim at Education Department’s Incentive Compensation Guidance (Inside Higher Ed)
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