Update from the Nation’s Capital Brittny McCarthy Director, Federal Relations American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
Higher Education Landscape Budget and Appropriations Higher Education Act U.S. Department of Education Negotiated Rulemaking
Budget and Appropriations Fiscal Year 2007 Appropriations Fiscal Year 2008 Budget –President’s Budget –House Budget Resolution –Senate Budget Resolution Fiscal Year 2008 Appropriations
Budget and Appropriations- The Political Environment Supplemental –Iraq War Debt and Deficit Earmarks Pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) Assumptions –Entitlements –Tax reform
Higher Education Act Senate Timeline and Negotiations House Timeline and Negotiations
Higher Education Act- The Political Environment Secretary’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education Competing Priorities- No Child Left Behind, Head Start, and others Student Loan Scandals Negotiated Rulemaking
Department of Education Negotiated Rulemaking Student Loans – ulemaking/2007/loans.htmlhttp:// ulemaking/2007/loans.html Accreditation – ulemaking/2007/accred.html ulemaking/2007/accred.html
Policy Themes Federalism Accountability and the role of data Affordability Integrity
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