May 5, 2006

Colleges Uncertain of Victory in Vote on Transfer-of-Credit Policies

By STEPHEN BURD

Under pressure from college leaders and lobbyists, the U.S. House of Representatives voted late in March to strike from a key bill a provision that would have given the federal government more oversight over colleges' transfer-of-credit policies.

Or did it?

The answer is yes and no. And that ambiguity has left some lobbyists for traditional colleges worrying that they did not achieve the victory they thought they had.

At issue is an amendment that Rep. Mark Souder, an

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