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National Data

Educational Conversation

• Request to delay compliance deadline: The National Association of Student Financial Aid
Administrators asked congressional leaders to push back by nine months a deadline colleges must
meet under new gainful-employment regulations, which are intended to make sure college
programs are improving students’ career prospects. NASFAA wants to delay an institutional
reporting requirement until July 2025 so that staff members have time to dig out from the botched
rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, and still let the Education Department
publish the information in 2026. (NASFAA, The Chronicle)

• New Tennessee State trustees scrap presidential search: The university’s governing
board unanimously voted to abandon a search that had already named three finalists to succeed
Glenda Glover after she retires at the end of this month. They now plan to fill the position on an
interim basis and restart the search to hire a new president by July of next year. The decision comes
less than three months after state lawmakers replaced the public historically Black university’s
governing board, (The Tennessean)

• Stanford mandates admissions tests: Applicants’ scores help predict their academic
performance, the private California institution said, joining a string of selective institutions bringing
back SAT and ACT requirements that they’d suspended amid the Covid-19 pandemic and debate
about whether the tests help or hinder underrepresented students. (Stanford University, The
Chronicle)

• Paycheck, presidential upheaval at Talladega College: President Gregory J. Vincent resigned
from the historically Black institution in Alabama on Wednesday. Last week, some faculty members
didn’t receive paychecks on time, but they’ve since been paid, and the chair of the college’s board
of trustees expressed confidence in its “ability to remain strong and stable during this transitional
period.” (WBMA)

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