Professional Licensure Student Disclosures – It’s the One Month Warning, with No Time-outs Remaining – WCET Frontier
Excitement is in the air! There’s two minutes left in the game! You have the ball with no time outs left! What are you going to do? It is up to you!
We just heard the horn for the two-minute (well…one-month) warning for the state authorization and professional licensure disclosure implementation game. We are looking July 1, 2020 straight in the face and need to develop a winning strategy. If only we had a playbook and diagram! Oh wait, we do! We have the Professional Licensure Disclosures Implementation Handbook and Flowchart provided by the WCET State Authorization Network (SAN) and author Shari Miller.
New Federal Regulations effective July 1, 2020 require that institutions that participate in Title IV financial aid programs must provide general and direct disclosures to prospective and enrolled students that participate in programs that lead to professional licensure.
Many may be saying, are you kidding?
No, I’m not kidding.
EARLY SEASON RECAP
Regular readers of WCET Frontiers are well aware of the long 10 year drama of the State Authorization regulations. Then, like when Brett Favre retired but then didn’t retire, we saw Federal regulations that were about to become effective in 2018 get delayed at the last second. Then the delayed regulations became effective due to a court ruling. Meanwhile, consensus language that included professional licensure disclosures for all modalities came from Negotiated rulemaking. The consensus language became the new regulations that were released November 1, 2019 just in the nick of time to meet the buzzer so that regulations could become effective July 1, 2020. To keep you on the edge of your seat, we are dealing with a pandemic! In many cases we see remote learning across state lines and the issue of licensing, certification, and disbursed students. What a game!