Amid FAFSA debacle, colleges confused about Biden’s gainful employment demands

Universities around the country only recently received revised student financial aid data after months of delays — and the Biden administration is also requiring them to provide new employment metrics without telling them how to comply.

Traditional universities, trade schools, certificate programs, and other forms of continued education are under the gun to provide the Department of Education with data points proving their worth to prospective students, known as “gainful employment” and “financial value transparency,” but the department has not issued guidance informing schools how to provide the data by the now-extended Oct. 1 deadline. The previous deadline was July 31.

Those demands come on the heels of the Biden administration’s botched rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, application, which saw months of delays and errors. The Biden
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