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The median earnings of 93% of undergraduate programs exceed the new federal earnings-premium standard enacted under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OB3), according to When Purpose Meets Payoff, a report the Institute for...

The U.S. Department of Education and the American Council on Education (ACE) will host a free webinar on November 10, 2026, from 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET to help colleges and universities meet Financial Value Transparency...

The U.S. Department of Education refreshed its Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) reporting guidance on September 25, 2026, posting an updated spreadsheet that reflects the latest data instituti...

The fall 2026-27 collection for the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) opened September 16, 2026. A few support resources are new this cycle, so keyholders will want to get oriented before the fall de...

The U.S. Department of Education has filed its supplemental explanation of the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS), the step a federal court required when it sent the survey back to the agency in Augus...

A federal court has sent the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) back to the U.S. Department of Education for further explanation, while leaving in place an injunction that pauses reporting deadlines f...

A U.S. Senate committee has advanced the College Transparency Act (CTA), a bill that would overturn the longstanding federal ban on a student-level data network. The committee voted 21 to 1 on August 5, 2026, to move the...

A summary of the latest IPEDS Technical Review Panel (TRP 72), IPEDS Data Quality: Practices, Strategies, and Structures to Support High-Quality Submissions, is now available for public review. The comment period remains...

The deadline for institutions to review and confirm their ACTS Quality Control (QC) reports has been extended to August 12, 2026 (previously July 31). Institutions should log in to the IPEDS collection system to review t...

A federal judge in Massachusetts has issued a preliminary injunction affecting ACTS reporting deadlines for a subset of institutions. Based on the April 24 ruling:The Department of Education may not enforce any...

On April 17, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing a new federal framework for higher education program accountability. The proposal would establish the Stu...

A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a new temporary restraining order (TRO) on April 13, 2026, further extending the ACTS reporting deadline to April 24, 2026, for a define...

On April 7, 2026, a federal court in Massachusetts issued a new temporary restraining order (TRO) affecting the timeline for the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) data collection.The order extends th...

On April 4, 2026, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction affecting the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) reporting requirements for a subset of institutions. This ruling bui...

As of April 1, 2026, a federal judge in Massachusetts has expanded the temporary restraining order (TRO) affecting Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) reporting deadlines, based on a March 31 ruling.Th...

On March 24, 2026, a federal court in Massachusetts held a hearing on a request for a preliminary injunction related to the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) data collection. The case, brought by a c...

AIR is monitoring a recent legal development that may affect the timeline associated with the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) reporting requirement.A federal judge in Massachusetts has issued a tem...

According to guidance confirmed with leadership at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), institutions that are unable to meet the March 18, 2026, deadline for submitting data to the Admissions and Consumer...

On February 17, 2026, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) issued an update to the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) collection affecting how institutions report the sex vari...

In January 2026, the U.S. Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking committee on Accountability in Higher Education and Access Through Demand-driven Workforce Pell (AHEAD) reached consensus on a new federal f...