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Tuesday, December 23, 2003
An interview with the president of Western Governors University Robert Mendenhall - Michelle Gamble-Risley, Converge
.... I don't see us currently impacted by policies around technology. One of the issues coming up in higher education reauthorization as Congress considers that next year is a 50-percent rule that basically discriminates against distance learning. It makes students not eligible for financial aid if the institution delivers more than half of its programs through distance learning, which would obviously cut out institutions such as WGU. We've been a part of a demonstration program that was created in 1988 in which Congress provided waivers for that 50-percent rule for a number of distance learning institutions. We do offer federal financial aid to our students; but we believe the 50-percent rule will probably be repealed. It was created in the 1970s to curb abuses in correspondences education -- and I think people today probably feel that it is not the same issue with distance education.
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