Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Congress to Consider Ending a Student-Aid Restriction on Distance Programs - DAN CARNEVALE, the Chronicle

Language that a member of Congress has added to a comprehensive financial-aid bill would ease an existing restriction on colleges that enroll more than half of their students through distance education. The legislative language would allow institutions that offer financial aid to continue to do so no matter how many distance-education students they enroll. To qualify, however, the institutions would have to have had a loan-default rate of less than 10 percent for the previous three years.

 



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