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5 Regul. Rev. Depth 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/rgyrvidh5 and id is 1 raw text is: IMPROVING HIGHER EDUCATION REGULATION Wendell Pritchettt Last fall, the U.S. Department of Education released an updated College Scorecard, an online system providing a voluminous amount of data on the nation's colleges and universities.1 The scorecard is the outcome of a three-year effort, announced by President Obama to much fanfare during the 2012 campaign, to create a college rating system that would assess the nation's higher education institutions on their cost of attendance, student graduation rates, and graduates' post-college earnings.2 It would also determine the allocation of federal funding to those institutions. After three years of withering attack from college leaders across the nation, the Obama Administration backed off and announced last summer that, in addition to updating the scorecard, it would focus its efforts on methods to promote innovation within the higher education sector.3 Although the rating system has failed to take root (at least for now), the debate that it instigated over the appropriate methods for the federal government to regulate higher education was instructive about the challenges legislators face as they continue to discuss the (already two years late) reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. It is not surprising that higher education leaders are opposed to greater federal regulation. As chronicled in a major report released last summer by the Task Force on the Regulation of Higher Education, the sector also has valid complaints about the inappropriately burdensome nature of many t James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. 1 Fact Sheet: Empowering Students to Choose the College that is Right for Them, THE WHITE HOUSE (Sept. 12, 2015), https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/12/ fact-sheet-empowering-students-choose-college-right-them. 2 Megan Slack, President Obama Explains His Plan to Combat Rising College Costs, THE WHITE HOUSE (Aug. 22, 2013), https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/22/ president-obama-explains-his-plan-combat-rising-college-costs. 3 Doug Lederman et. al., Rating (and Berating) the Ratings, INSIDE HIGHER ED (Feb. 7, 2014), https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/07/colleges -and-analysts-respond- obama-ratings-proposal; Helping Families Navigate Their Higher Education Options, DEPT. EDUC. (June 25, 2015), https://www.ed.gov/content/helping-families-navigate- their-higher-education-options.

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