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American Council on Education

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Nov 22, 2025
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What are the DOE's 2026 definitions of professional and nonprofessional degrees and how do they differ from prior guidance?

The Department of Education’s 2026 rulemaking would adopt a much narrower legal definition of “professional degree,” recognizing roughly a small set of traditional fields as professional and excluding...

Feb 1, 2026

Is Ace hardware helping immigration

The short answer is: which "ACE/Ace" is meant — the retail chain shows minimal documented use of employment‑based visas in publicly available records, while the nonprofit/academic organization ACE is ...

Jan 4, 2026

Who developed the SAT and when was it first introduced?

The SAT was developed in the 1920s by Princeton psychologist Carl Campbell Brigham after he adapted Army aptitude testing for college admissions, and it was first administered on June 23, 1926, to rou...

Nov 29, 2025

Which institutions or programs appealed DOE reclassification decisions for 2025–2026?

Multiple kinds of institutions appealed Department of Education (ED) and Department of Energy (DOE) decisions in 2025–2026: universities and higher‑education associations sued or appealed DOE policy c...

Nov 24, 2025

How do federal financial aid rules differ for students in professional degrees compared with non-professional degrees?

Federal rules are moving to treat “graduate” and “professional” students differently for federal loans: under recent legislation and regulatory proposals, graduate students would be limited to about $...

Nov 20, 2025

Were there public comments, appeals, or legal challenges from universities or professional associations about the change?

Available reporting shows many universities and major academic associations responded publicly—through statements, policy changes, and litigation—to federal actions affecting DEI, funding, and researc...