Colleges and universities that contract with an online program management company need to submit details about those arrangements by May 1.
Oversight Coming for Online Program Providers — from insidehighered.com by Katherine Knott
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The Education Department is planning to increase oversight of the outside contractors that colleges and universities use to help run online programs.
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To address that finding, the department said in guidance issued Wednesday that OPMs and any entity that provides recruitment services for a college are considered third-party servicers, subjecting the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits. Colleges and universities are required to report details of their agreements to the department by May 1.