This webinar offers advice for staff (in particular, managers, directors, and department heads) to identify ways to improve inter-departmental cooperation. This will assist institutions in developing policies and procedures which are compliant but also take into account the practical requirements needed to provide optimal assistance to students and foster more effective teamwork and responsiveness amongst More Info »
The 90/10 Rule presents an annual challenge for the management teams of proprietary schools. Attorneys from the law firm of Ritzert & Leyton will discuss recent enforcement developments and potential changes to the Rule based on legislative proposals in this informative webinar. The 60 minute session will also touch on practical strategies for ensuring compliance More Info »
There are seven key skills and habits that top performing reps bring to work every single day. How can you efficiently transfer these attributes to underperforming reps – and have it stick? Our panel cracks the admissions code and shares the seven high-performance attributes of top performing reps. You will take away constructive action items More Info »
Few of the Department’s regulations cause more confusion or create more angst at private-sector institutions than the incentive compensation ban. This is in part due to the Department’s shifting policies and pronouncements regarding the ban over the years as well as the recent surge in lawsuits against schools by qui tam relators under the False More Info »
Peter Leyton, ESQ. and Stephen T. Chema II of Ritzert & Leyton, review the gainful employment reporting requirements in advance of the up coming July 31, 2015 reporting deadline and provide examples. The following information will be discussed: Review GE data needed for reporting Reporting methods; batch reporting and/or online reporting Common NSLDS submission issues
The first webinar in the series focuses on Gainful Employment II. Attorneys Peter Leyton and Steve Chema provide an analysis of the Department of Education’s proposed Gainful Employment rule. Peter Leyton, Ritzert & Leyton, PC co-founder, a past negotiator in Department of Education rulemaking proceedings and long-standing advisor to postsecondary institutions, will discusses key components More Info »
This webinar will address document retention policies and practices that postsecondary institutions should consider in order to reduce regulatory and legal risk. Topical discussion will be based on the firm’s experience in situations where document retention practices have worked both for and against an institution. Members of our litigation team will provide suggestions about ways More Info »
The second webinar in the series focuses on the important topic of the evolving rules regarding State Authorization of postsecondary institutions as a component of Title IV institutional eligibility. Attorneys Peter Leyton and Katherine Brodie will discuss the current status of the Department of Education’s state authorization rule promulgated after the 2010 Title IV Program More Info »
This webinar will review key components of the Department of Education’s ‘Gainful Employment’ final rule, as published on October 31, 2014 and effective July 1, 2015. The speakers will review the Debt-to-Earnings rate accountability metrics and changes made in the final rule that relate to calculation of those metrics, certification requirements, warnings and other consumer More Info »
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has invested considerable resources toward energizing the Department’s efforts to ensure that public and private schools, including institutions of higher education (IHEs), are committed to and effectively executing their obligations under Title IX, a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in federally More Info »