February 7, 2003

Congress May End Distance-Education Limit

By DAN CARNEVALE

A provision in a comprehensive financial-aid bill in Congress would ease a restriction under which colleges that enroll more than half of their students through distance education cannot offer federal student aid.

The provision would allow institutions that currently offer financial aid to continue to do so, no matter how many distance-education students they go on to enroll. To qualify, however, the institutions would have to have a loan-default rate of less than 10 percent for the

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