Pending Bill Would Double Colleges' Reporting Burden, Critics Say

When the U.S. Senate's education committee met last summer to consider legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, Sen. Lamar Alexander brought along a prop: five plastic boxes containing all the regulations that various iterations of the bill have created over the years. Stacked on top of each other, the black and blue boxes stood as tall as the former college president, who is an inch shy of six feet.

The message to his colleagues was clear: Colleges and universities are

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