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Tuesday, September 03, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i02/02a04301.htm Retrictions on Fed Aid to Online Students Eased DAN CARNEVALE Officials who run distance-education programs have been pleading for years for either Congress or the Department of Education to kill a regulation known as the 12-hour rule, arguing that it chokes off innovation in online education. But now that the rule is about to die, only a few institutions plan to do anything that it would have prohibited. The 12-hour rule was originally intended to deny fly-by-night course providers access to federal financial aid. It requires college programs that don't operate on a traditional academic calendar to deliver at least 12 hours of course work a week for their students to be eligible to receive federal financial aid. Last month the Education Department proposed requiring those programs to offer at least "one day" of instruction a week instead....
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