Reg' Busters

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Reg. Busters

• Presenters
• Bill Cheetham, Director of Financial Aid LeMoyne
  College, Syracuse, NY
• John View, Director of Financial Aid SUNY- ESF,
  Syracuse, NY

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Why Regulations?

• Chaos The Websters Dictionary defines Chaos
  as Confusion
• Regulation Defined by Webster as control,
  adjust

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Congress Makes Federal Laws

• Follow the bill as it moves through Congress

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Reg Busting begins early

• The reg busters should begin long before the
  lawmakers pass the bill and the president signs
  it.
• News spreads fast we should all be connected
  into our professional networks- the purpose being
  to receive data on pending bills MAKE Comments
  Then

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Early Reg Busting

• Are you connected to IFAP for weekly updates?
• Are you a member of a professional
  organization(s) e.g NYSFAAA, et al
• Legislative Advocacy Committees
• List Serves?
• Mentors and Kitchen cabinets

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REG Busting Begins Early

• Use a targeted approach do not wait for the
  final bill, contact your legislative contacts as
  the hearings begin. Meet them in their home
  office
• Enlist and empower the support of those impacted
  by the change students
• Combine the above for a forum on your campus

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Reg Busting

• You must have Factual Data to substantiate your
  position. Here say, innuendo or anecdotal stories
  or Gee, someone told about someone who heard
• Be prepared to have the data challenged but if it
  is factual, then the data will speak for itself.
• Statistics Lie-Liars use statistics

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Pro Active Reg Busting

• Using the steps in the prior slide lays the
  Foundation for the after Passage work.
• Ultimately a Regulation will be passed. It will
  go to the appropriate Department for more
  refinement. At that time, there are other
  vehicles to use for continued input.

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Reg Busting After Passage

• There are several tools that one can use to make
  further comments before final regulations are
  written.
• NPRM Notice of proposed Rulemaking this
  process begins with the Dept. of Ed. Posting a
  notice(IFAP)

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NPRM Example

• On March 21, 2008, we published a Notice of
  Proposed Rulemaking (NRPM) in the Federal
  Register that proposes the rules that will apply
  to the TEACH Grant Program that was authorized in
  the College Cost Reduction and Access Act
  (CCRAA). A PDF copy of the NPRM is attached to
  this announcement and is also available directly
  on the IFAP website under Federal Registers.

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NPRM

• The NPRM is your way of making direct comments
  into the federal review process to potentially
  have the impact and/or modification you are
  seeking
• The department does read these comments and must
  respond, in writing in the Federal Register

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Negotiated Rulemaking Tool

• HEA section 492 requires negotiation of proposed
  Title IV regulations
• Negotiated Rulemaking Goals
• Advance Administrations Management Reform
  Priorities
• Promote Active, But Limited, Role for Federal
  Government
• Empower citizens
• Ensure results through accountability

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NegReg Goals

• Reduce expense and compliance problems
• Reduce program operating costs through greater
  use of e-commerce
• Simplify process and improve service
• Improve program management and integrity

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Who Does NEG REG

• Negotiators represent coalitions of identified
  constituencies e.g Department, Schools,
  Students and others
• Emphasis on practitioner negotiators
• Anyone can submit their Name it is allowed in
  the notice from the Department

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From NASFAA Notice 9/12/08

• Identifying Negotiators Send your thoughts and
  suggestions about who from the field (including
  yourself) might be willing and able to represent
  the interests of our membership at the
  forthcoming NegReg sessions. These individuals
  would need to attend the meetings, become
  familiar with the topic under negotiation, and
  offer constructive comments during the session.

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Neg Reg Process

• Various teams are selected and then they come
  together usually in Washington to negotiate the
  rules regulations that will take the chaos and
  turn it into a control that allows us all to
  adjust, explain and implement the new law

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Reg Busters After the Regulation is Implemented

• From a practical standpoint, once the regulations
  are implemented, the best way to deal with them
  are
• Training Workshops
• Continuous reading of the regulations
• Reach out and touch someone Its Ok to say I
  dont think I get can you help or explain 2
  heads are better than one

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Reg Busters

• I aint afaraid of no regs

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Reg Busters - Questions

• Thank you for coming