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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">At the Hot Topics meeting today there were some questions and concerns around the AACC email forwarded to WACTC yesterday. Please note the request for any follow up or information
on impact will be handled through SBCTC. There is no action for you all to take<b> but please look at the attachment and the message below because they clearly outline the negative impacts to this reconciliation</b>-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“this bill contains sweeping changes to student financial aid policy. It limits Pell Grant eligibility and restructures federal student loans, overhauls borrower repayment options, implements
risk-sharing for colleges, and drastically limits the Department of Education’s regulatory authority.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> PRES-C <</span><a href="mailto:pres-c-bounces@lists.ctc.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">pres-c-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Bailey via PRES-C<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 30, 2025 1:26 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pres-c] FW: background on yesterday's House reconciliation markup<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good afternoon Chancellors and Presidents, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m forwarding the most recent update I received from David Baime at AACC regarding the budget reconciliation matter.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chris Bailey<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interim Executive Director <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Below is a news-ish account of the House Ed/Workforce markup yesterday on budget reconciliation. I am also attaching a PDF of our bill summary, I hope it makes it through your spam filters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We will be in touch soon with more information, but wanted to share with you what we have now. Please let me know if you would like more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">House Education Committee Cuts Pell Grants, Approves Risk-Sharing</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On a party line vote, on Tuesday the House Education and Workforce Committee made major changes to federal student aid programs that, if unaltered, will dramatically reduce Pell Grant support for community college
students. Institutions also would be required to return funds to the federal government for students who have not repaid their student loans, whether it be from default or because the loan was forgiven by the federal government. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The committee was charged with saving $330 billion over ten years, and the Congressional Budget Office put the savings at $351 billion. Prior to markup, AACC’s advocacy on the committee’s budget reconciliation
legislation concentrated on three issues. First, it urged the committee to abandon the risk-sharing framework that ultimately was adopted—indeed, it is the same one advanced by the committee under the previous chair, Dr. Virginia Foxx (R-NC). AACC also asked
for inclusion of the Workforce Pell Grant and substantial additional funds to shore up Pell Grant financing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Pell Cuts Come Out of the Blue</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The bill’s significant changes to the Pell Grant program were not revealed until 24 hours before the committee markup—they had not been part of policy discussions. These changes would be particularly harmful to
community college students. Under the legislation, students would now be required to take at least 7.5 credits to qualify for a Pell Grant. This is because the bill eliminates eligibility for “less than half-time students,” while defining “full-time” as
15 credits. Under current law, students are defined as full time if they take 12 credits, and less than half-time students are eligible for support (and have been since 1992). Community college students who take 12 credits would now be eligible for only
80% of the Pell Grant maximum, currently set at $7,395.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The committee justified the Pell cuts in part to stabilize the program’s finances, which have gone deeply into the red with the enactment of the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020. The Simplification Act greatly
expanded student aid eligibility in addition to overhauling the FAFSA. Ironically, given the partisan nature of the reconciliation markup, the FAFSA Simplification Act was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and has since been hailed across both parties. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In its advocacy on the reconciliation bill, AACC had urged the committee to provide additional funding for the Pell Grant program. The committee responded positively, and $10.5 billion was provided to keep the
program in balance over the next three years—good news. However, the student eligibility cuts are permanent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Risk-Sharing Provisions and Promise Grants</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Under the bill’s risk-sharing provisions, a complex formula is applied to each program offered by a Title IV-eligible institution to determine whether funds need to be repaid to the government. The formula considers
the earnings of program completers compared to program costs and then factors in the amounts of student loans they have not repaid for any reason, including loan forgiveness (of either principal or interest). Non-completers also generate assessments, though
using a different formula. Community colleges’ low tuitions and low student borrowing rates generally result in relatively low assessments, especially compared to other sectors. In the last Congress, the House education committee made available data that
delineated the institutional charges. However, loan repayment requirements have changed dramatically since early 2024 when the legislation was advanced by the House Committee, making those estimates significantly outdated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The bill also contains PROMISE Grants, designed to reward institutions that graduate high percentages of students who receive Pell Grants. AACC has long supported federal support for graduation efforts, and the
PROMISE Grants are all “carrot,” unlike the “stick” of risk sharing. In fact, according to committee documents from the last Congress, community colleges overall would receive more money from PROMISE Grants than they would have to pay via risk-sharing—certainly
a good thing, in general. However, AACC continues to oppose risk-sharing as a concept, but even more so because not every community college would gain funds; some would be net losers. If the PROMISE Grants were moved independently of the risk-sharing, AACC
would very likely support them. (AACC would propose changing the standard of 100% “on time” completion for a student to count towards a grant).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">After sustained lobbying, a slightly altered version of last Congress’s Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act was included in the bill. Notably missing was the bill’s controversial offset.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Because budget reconciliation has special rules, some of the reporting provisions, ED approval process, and accreditation procedures have been stripped from the bill, which is welcome. However, the stringent outcomes
measures that programs must meet were retained. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Most importantly, however, and most worrisome, is the addition of non-Title IV providers to the program, meaning basically any provider that meets the bill’s other provisions can offer workforce Pell programs.
It’s unclear how these non-institutional providers would be able to meet requirements that were initially crafted for colleges, but they are made eligible and presumably legislators thought some non-Title IV entities would become eligible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The committee’s bill eliminates the subsidized Direct Loan program. From now on, interest on student loans will start accruing immediately, but will not have to be paid while students are enrolled. This change
is a reversal of decades-long federal loan policy and will ultimately increase the cost of borrowing for low- and moderate-income students. The bill also includes new changes to annual, aggregate, and lifetime borrowing limits. In a change welcomed by community
colleges, the bill allows for institutional discretion to limit loan eligibility so long as it is applied consistently to all students enrolled in such a program.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">The bill also significantly overhauls student loan repayment policy. The bill streamlines repayment options to one fixed standard repayment plan and one income-driven repayment plan.
The bill alters the existing standard repayment plan to extend the repayment window based on overall loan volume. The new Repayment Assistance Plan extends the timeline to forgiveness to 30 years and assesses monthly payment amounts based on a percentage of
Adjusted Gross Income rather than discretionary income. While this change will lower monthly payments for some borrowers, others, including many borrowers with dependents, will see their payments increase. Borrowers will be expected to repay a greater portion
of their loans under the new plan, compared to the Biden Administration’s SAVE Plan and the long-established REPAYE, PAYE, and IBR plans. The bill does include provisions to aid in full repayment, including eliminating interest capitalization and providing
a mechanism to help lower-income borrowers pay down their principal amount. That aside, AACC continues to urge Congress to consider a shorter timeline to forgiveness for borrowers with lower loan balances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">What You Should be Doing</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Community college officials should not waste any time in assessing the potential impact of the Pell Grant program changes and communicating that to their legislators. While the reconciliation bill will likely
pass only with Republican votes, all members need to hear from their campuses, as the Pell Grant program remains solidly bipartisan, and perhaps on this issue the minority may have sway. The two calculations that campuses need to make and communicate are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">The amount of grant support that would be lost by eliminating Pell Grant eligibility for students taking on a credit load of less than 7.5 semester hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The next key step in the budget reconciliation process is pending action by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The committee’s intentions concerning reconciliation are unclear, but
indications are that legislation proposed by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) in the last Congress will serve as a template for action this year. However, Cassidy’s bill did not address the Pell Grant program, so much focus will be there. Cassidy’s bill also
has a very different form of institutional accountability, tying Title IV eligibility to the earnings of program completers. AACC is currently lobbying the committee, whose markup schedule is completely undetermined at this time. As in the House, Republican
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