By Autumn A. Arnett, Education Dive
Saying Obama-era credit hour definitions “only created barriers to innovation for students and institutions,” House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is leading the push to scrap the definitions with the new PROSPER Act to re-authorize the Higher Education Act. Critics of this proposal worry the change will lead “bad actors” to shuffle more students along at a quicker pace, taking advantage of financial aid dollars while leaving students with little learned, according to The Hill. One audit, for example, found an institution had allowed a student to accumulate nine credit hours in one 10-week online course. The act also would soften the requirement that any online program obtain authorization from each state in which it operates and collects federal financial aid.
December 31, 2017
Credit hour definitions may be dying as Congress takes up HEA reauthorization
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