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Many professions require formal licensure or certification; health care (doctors, nurses, counselors), education (teachers), accounting (CPAs), and IT/security roles commonly demand specific credentia...
The Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos did not, in her time (2017–2021), publish a wholesale reclassification removing specific degrees from a “professional degree” list; contemporary...
Joint cost accounting lets nonprofits split the expenses of multi-purpose activities (like a mailer that both educates and solicits donations) between “program” and “fundraising” categories, and that ...
The Department of Education’s proposed narrow definition of “professional degree” would remove many nursing, public‑health, social‑work, education and allied‑health graduate credentials from eligibili...
Congress’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) added four temporary below‑the‑line deductions for tax years 2025–2028 and the IRS drafted a new Schedule 1‑A to capture them; the draft Schedule 1‑A lists ...
Peer review remains the dominant mechanism for validating scholarly work but faces documented reliability, bias, and capacity problems; multiple 2024–2025 reviews and reports highlight both its contin...
State licensing boards have shown mixed, mostly indirect responses to the 2025 federal reclassification of “professional” degrees: some national licensure organizations announced internal updates or c...
There is no single, compiled list in the provided sources naming specific academic degrees that have been de-accredited or that have lost licensing pathways since 2015; reporting and policy documents ...
Removing a program’s “professional” designation can shift how accreditation and licensure pathways are interpreted but available reporting is patchy about a uniform legal consequence; federal rules no...
The One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R. 1) enacted temporary for qualified tips and overtime pay for tax years 2025–2028, meaning tips and overtime remain taxable income but taxpayers may reduce their federa...