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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAdvisory Committee on StudentFinancial Assistance: Hearing
AGENCY
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Advisory Committee onStudent Financial Assistance,Education.
ACTION
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Notice of upcoming hearing.
SUMMARY
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This notice sets forth theschedule and proposed agenda of aforthcoming hearing of the Advisorycommittee on Student FinancialAssistance. Individuals who will needaccommodations for a disability in orderto attend the hearing (
i.e.
, interpretingservices, assistive listening devices,and/or materials in alternative format)should notify the Advisory Committeeno later than Tuesday, March 28, 2006, by contacting Ms. Hope Gray at (202)219
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2099 or via e-mail at
Hope.Gray@ed.gov.
We will attempt tomeet requests after this date, but cannotguarantee availability of the requestedaccommodation. The hearing site isaccessible to individuals withdisabilities. This notice also describesthe functions of the AdvisoryCommittee. Notice of this hearing isrequired under Section 10(a)(2) of theFederal Advisory Committee Act. Thisdocument is intended to notify thegeneral public.
DATE AND TIME
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Tuesday, April 4, 2006, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending atapproximately 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES
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The Washington CourtHotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue, NW.,Executive Room, Lower Lobby Level,Washington DC 20001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
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Ms.Nicole A. Barry, Deputy Director,Advisory Committee on StudentFinancial Assistance, Capitol Place, 80 FStreet, NW., Suite 413, Washington DC20202
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7582, (202) 219
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2099.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
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TheAdvisory Committee on StudentFinancial Assistance is establishedunder Section 491 of the HigherEducation Act of 1965 as amended byPublic Law 100
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50 (20 U.S.C. 1098).The Advisory Committee serves as anindependent source of advice andcounsel to the Congress and theSecretary of Education on studentfinancial aid policy. Since its inception,the congressional mandate requires theAdvisory Committee to conductobjective, nonpartisan, and independentanalyses on important aspects of thestudent assistance programs under TitleIV of the Higher Education Act, and tomake recommendations that will resultin the maintenance of access topostsecondary education for low- andmiddle income students. In addition,Congress expanded the AdvisoryCommittee
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s mission in the HigherEducation Amendments of 1998 toinclude several important areas: Access,Title IV modernization, distanceeducation, and early information andneeds assessment. Specifically, theAdvisory Committee is to review,monitor and evaluate the Department of Education
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s progress in these areas andreport recommended improvements toCongress and the Secretary.The Advisory Committee hasscheduled the hearing on Tuesday,April 4 in Washington, DC to launch itsnew Study on Innovative Pathways toBaccalaureate Degree Attainment(Innovative Pathways Study). Thisthree-year initiative, which wasoriginally included in the Senate
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s HEAreauthorization bill, will identifycreative programs and strategiesdesigned to increase the likelihood thatstudents from low- and moderate-income families attain a baccalaureatedegree. The Advisory Committee willfocus on ways to eliminate majoracademic, institutional, and financial barriers facing students and familiesfrom middle school through college.Over the course of the study, theCommittee will produce a series of reports that highlight promisingapproaches to ensure that students whoaspire to such a degree move throughthe access and persistence pipeline inan efficient, effective, and timelymanner. These reports will be designedto encourage federal, state, andinstitutional policymakers to embrace best practices that, over time, willnarrow income-related gaps in degreecompletion.The proposed agenda includes experttestimony and discussions bypolicymakers and representatives fromstate agencies, institutions, and earlyintervention programs who will address:(a) Innovative pathways in middleschool and high school designed toincrease low- and moderate-incomestudents
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chances of attaining a baccalaureate degree, (b) promisingstrategies for improving the transitionfrom high school to college, includingcredit-based transition and dualenrollment programs, and (c) programsin higher education designed to increasethe number of low- and moderate-income students that attain a bachelor
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sdegree, including those programs toincrease the rate of transfer andarticulation from two-year to four-yearinstitutions. The Advisory Committeewill also conduct a roundtablediscussion among Committee membersand panelists on the InnovativePathways Study, followed by a publiccomment session.The Advisory Committee invites thepublic to submit written comments onthe Innovative Pathways Study to thefollowing e-mail address:
ACSFA@ed.gov.
Information regardingthe Innovative Pathways Study will also be available on the AdvisoryCommittee
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s Web site,
http:// www.ed.gov/ACSFA. We must receive your comments on or before April 3,2006 to be included in the hearing materials; additional comments should be provided to the Committee no later than June 30, 2006.
Space for the hearing is limited andyou are encourage to register early if youplan to attend. You may register bysending an e-mail to the followingaddress:
ACSFA@ed.gov
or
Tracy.Deanna.Jones@ed.gov.
Pleaseinclude your name, title, affiliation,complete address (including internetand e-mail, if available), and telephoneand fax numbers. If your are unable toregister electronically, you may fax yourregistration information to the AdvisoryCommittee staff office at (202) 219
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3032. You may also contact theAdvisory Committee staff directly at(202) 219
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2099.
The registrationdeadline is Wednesday, March 29,2006.
Records are kept for AdvisoryCommittee proceedings, and are
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