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Featured Analysis
The numbers of U.S. students studying abroad has increased by over 150% in 10 years. This means that the likelihood of students needing medical care or experiencing a crisis while abroad has also increased. One key tool in managing these situations and increasing a positive outcome for our students is their travel medical insurance. Though most education aboard professionals will shudder at the thought of an in-depth consideration of insurance, a little pain now will certainly pay for both your students and your organization. Do you know how travel medical insurance is handled for your education abroad students? Do you know how your practice compares to your peer institutions?
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Quick Takes
(Highlights from CLHE’s Higher Education Law & Policy Digest)
DOJ Revises ADA Standards for Accessible Design
The Department of Justice issued final regulations that will have a major impact on postsecondary institutions. These regulations provide detailed requirements regarding the design and use of physical spaces and much more. The DOJ’s analysis of the changes can be accessed here.
Senate Appropriations Committee Passes Education Spending Bill
The Senate Committee on Appropriations passed the FY 11 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. Regarding student financial aid, the bill would provide about $19.5 billion. Pell Grants would be level-funded as would other programs such as Federal Work-Study loans. No money would be provided to the Perkins loan program.
Tax Breaks for Residents to Get Supreme Court Review
The U.S. Supreme Court in June accepted a case in which it will decide whether medical residents qualify as students for purposes of receiving an exemption from federal payroll taxes that fund Medicare and Social Security. At stake are billions of dollars that physicians and medical institutions say are best used to train the nation’s next crop of doctors.
Outside Opinion: Those Accountability Rules for Student Loans
This past Monday, the Department of Education proposed “gainful employment” rules that will regulate postsecondary vocational programs, primarily those offered by for-profit colleges, on the basis of their graduates’ ability to pay back their federal student loans. Proponents of higher education reform should welcome this move, but not because it targets unscrupulous actors in the for-profit sector. More importantly, the initiative makes a rhetorically significant shift: it places postsecondary institutions and the economic value of the education that they provide at the center of discussions about student loans and college costs. It also adds a new and necessary dimension to the outcome data that the federal government can link directly to individual institutions of higher education.
Featured Case: Sonnier v. Crain, (C.A.5 (La.))
A speaker, who sought a preliminary injunction against enforcement of a speech policy regulating the time, place and manner, and other matters relating to speech by non-students on a university campus, failed to demonstrate a substantial likelihood of success on merits of his claim that a requirement that an application to assemble or demonstrate on campus be made seven days in advance was not narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest, and therefore was facially invalid under the First Amendment.. |
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