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What You Need to Know About the GOP Bill to Bring Sweeping Changes to Higher Ed

December 01, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Chronicle of Higher Education
By Adam Harris
December 1, 2017

After a flurry of movement this week on the reauthorization of the federal law governing higher education, which is overdue for an update, the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday introduced its bill to overhaul the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Summary details of the legislation, including plans to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, cap the amount that graduate students may borrow, and end the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, were reported on Wednesday. But the release of the full text fleshes out the details of those proposals.

Read the full article at the Chronicle for Higher Ed website here.