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Resource Repository on Gainful Employment
The Higher Education Act stipulates that career education programs must “prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation” to be eligible to receive federal student aid dollars. Through its updated gainful employment (GE) rule, the Department of Education establishes a framework for how career training programs can demonstrate that they meet that bar—setting baseline quality standards for access to federal funding tied to program graduates’ earnings outcomes and the manageability of their student debt. Third Way’s products on GE highlight the need for a strong gainful employment rule to protect student and taxpayer investment in career education.
Crossing the (Earnings) Threshold: Post-College Earnings as a Measure of ROI
Michelle Dimino
Q&A: What’s in the New Gainful Employment Rule?
Michelle Dimino
Comments to the Department of Education on Gainful Employment, Financial Value Transparency, and Other Proposed Rules
Michelle Dimino, Lanae Erickson
Third Way Statement on Gainful Employment Rule Protecting Students and Taxpayers
What Public Commenters Said About a Low-Financial-Value College Programs List
Michelle Dimino
Comments to the Department of Education on Low-Financial-Value Programs
Michelle Dimino, Lanae Erickson
Adding an Earnings Threshold to Gainful Employment
Michelle Dimino
Republican Voters Support Higher Education Reform
Shelbe Klebs, Lanae Erickson
Why the Gainful Employment Rule is a Political Winner
Shelbe Klebs
What Will Happen If We Reinstate the Gainful Employment Rule?
Michael Itzkowitz, Shelbe Klebs
The Gainful Employment Rule Explained
Third Way
GE by the Numbers: How Students Fared at Programs Covered Under the Gainful Employment Rule
Tamara Hiler, Wesley Whistle
How Low Does The Gainful Employment Bar Go?
Michael Itzkowitz, Clare Bain
How the “Gainful Employment” Rule Protects Students and Taxpayers
Michael Itzkowitz