Disclosure

Student Eligibility The HEOA now requires every student to provide his or her social security number to the Secretary as part of the financial aid application process, thereby eliminating the exemption for students from the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau.

Ability to Benefit HEOA section 485(a)(3) HEA section 484(d)(4) Effective date: August 14, 2008 The HEOA adds a new provision that allows students without a high school diploma or its equivalent to become eligible to receive Title IV funding upon satisfactory completion of six credit hours or the equivalent coursework that are applicable toward a degree or certificate offered by the institution. Students are ineligible to receive Title IV aid while earning the six credit hours. In a clock hour program, completion of 225 clock hours is the equivalent to six credit hours.

Obtaining Financial Data from the Internal Revenue Service The HEOA gives the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Treasury, authority to obtain from the IRS any information reported on Federal income tax returns by an applicant, or any other individual whose financial information is required on the FAFSA. As a condition of a student receiving Title IV assistance, the Secretary may require an applicant, the parents of a dependent applicant, or the spouse of an applicant to provide consent in order for the IRS to disclose the necessary information.
Regaining Eligibility after a Drug Conviction

The HEOA adds a new provision at section 484(r)(2)(B) of the HEA that allows a student whose eligibility has been suspended due to a drug conviction to resume eligibility if the student successfully passes two unannounced drug tests conducted by a drug rehabilitation program that complies with criteria established by the Secretary. Results must also be provided to Congress.

Financial Assistance for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities The HEOA adds a new provision to allow students with intellectual disabilities to receive funding under the Federal Pell Grant Program, FSEOG Program and FWS Program.

Consumer Information
Consumer Information
Academic year 2011-2012 (HEA section 485 paragraph (a)(1)(L) or subsection (e) for two-year institutions)
As part of the required information an institution must make available to prospective and enrolled students the HEOA adds

• to the existing description of the academic program any plans the institution has for improving the academic program;

• terms and conditions under which students receive FFEL, Direct Loans and Perkins Loans;

• new subparagraph (P) of section 485(a)(1) of the HEA requires a description of institutional policies and sanctions related to copyright infringement and civil and criminal liabilities students may face for unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials which includes unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing and the prohibited use of the institution’s information technology system for those activities;

• new information on student body diversity in the categories of gender and ethnicity of enrolled, full-time students who receive Federal Pell Grants;

• information on placement of and types of employment obtained by graduates of the institutions’ degree or certificate programs. The HEOA suggests that institutions use sources such as alumni surveys, student satisfactions surveys, the National Survey of Student Engagement, the Community College Survey of Student Engagement State data systems or other sources available;

• types of graduate and professional education in which graduates of the institutions’ four-year degree programs enrolled which may be gathered from sources listed in the prior bullet;

• a fire safety report prepared by the institution (further explained in the discussion of section 485(i) of the HEA);

• retention rates of certificate or degree seeking first-time full-time undergraduate students entering such institution; and

• institutional policies regarding all vaccinations.
The HEOA amends subparagraph (L) of section 485(a)(1) of the HEA regarding completion and graduation rates disclosed to exclude the completion or graduation rates of students who leave school to serve in the Armed Forces, on official church missions, or with a recognized foreign aid service of the Federal Government. In cases where these types of students represent 20 percent or more of the certificate or degree-seeking fulltime undergraduate students at the institution, the institution may recalculate the completion or graduate rates of such students by excluding from the calculation the time period such students weren’t enrolled due to their service in those categories. The same exclusions from reporting requirements are also reflected in amended section 485(e) of the HEA with respect to the disclosure of athletically related graduation rates.

The HEOA now also requires institutions to disaggregate completion and graduation rate data with respect to (1) existing section 485(a)(1)(L) of the HEA, which requires institutions to disclose the completion and graduation rate of certificate- or degreeseeking, full-time, undergraduate students; and (2) existing section 485(e) of the HEA, which requires institutions to disclose and submit annually to the Department completion or graduation rates for student-athletes. The data must be disaggregated based on gender, race/ethnicity and receipt of a Federal Pell Grant, receipt of a FFEL or Direct Loan (but not an unsubsidized Stafford or Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford) but not a Federal Pell Grant, and non- receipt of a Federal Pell Grant or Federal loans (other than an unsubsidized Stafford or Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford). The HEOA provides an exception where institutions may note instances where the statistical number is too small and would not yield statistically reliable information or would reveal personally identifiable information. These requirements will not apply to two-year degree-granting institutions until the 2011-2012 academic year. In order to assist two-year degreegranting institutions in meeting these requirements, the Secretary, in consultation with the Commissioner for Education Statistics, must convene a group of representatives from the higher education community to consider and recommend additional or alternative measures of student success and to discuss a potential means of accurate calculation and reporting of the information required to be disclosed or submitted to the Department, as applicable, for the two-year degree granting institutions. The Department is in the process of convening that group. The study group must release a report within 18 months. The Secretary may modify the information required to be disclosed or submitted, as applicable, for the two-year schools during the period starting with August 14, 2008, and ending on June 30, 2011.

Exit Counseling
Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Annual Security
Report

Transfer of Credit Policies
Notice to Students Concerning Penalties for Drug Violations
Entrance Counseling for Borrowers
Year-Round Pell Grant AS OF JULY 1 2011, YEAR ROUND PELL HAS BEEN ELIMINATED
Sex Offenders and Pell Grants
Maximum Duration of Eligibility Grant for the first time on or after July 1, 2008) The HEOA limits the period of time that a student may receive a Federal Pell Grant to 18 semesters or the equivalent as determined by regulation. The regulations are to provide fractional equivalents for terms in which a student is enrolled less than full-time. As a result, a student is eligible to receive up to nine Federal Pell Grant Scheduled Awards. This provision applies to students who receive a Federal Pell Grant for the first time on or after July 1, 2008.

Limit applies to 18 semesters or the equivalent of FULL time attendance.
Children of Soldiers
ACG/National SMART Grant Programs PROGRAMS NO LONGER FUNDED AS OF 07/01/2011