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Inside the Rulemaking Room: Ritchie Morrow’s Front-Row Recap - Day 1

Mar 21, 2026

📅 December 9, 2025 Dear Colleagues … Let’s Talk About What Just Happened in Rule-making By J. Ritchie Morrow, BAEd, MSEd Financial Aid Officer Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Dear Colleagues, Pull up a chair. Day One of Negotiated Rule-making gave us a few moments that made everyone sit up a little straighter… and maybe double-check their policies on the way out the door. Let’s start with the question quietly floating around the room: “If a student goes . . .

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Inside the Rulemaking Room: Ritchie Morrow’s Front-Row Recap - Day 2

Mar 21, 2026

📅 December 10, 2025 Dear Colleague… Day Two Brought Receipts (and a Few Curve Balls) By J. Ritchie Morrow, BAEd, MSEd Financial Aid Officer Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Dear Colleague, Greetings from a surprisingly cool DC, where the temperature dropped a bit… but the conversations did not. Day Two leaned heavily into Workforce Pell mechanics, with a mix of clarifications, early revisions, and a few signals about where things might be headed (with emphasis on . . .

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Inside the Rulemaking Room: Ritchie Morrow’s Front-Row Recap - Day 3

Mar 21, 2026

📅 December 11, 2025 Dear Colleagues… Day Three Slowed Down the Room (But Not the Stakes) By J. Ritchie Morrow, BAEd, MSEd Financial Aid Officer Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Editor’s Note: You may notice a slightly different tone in today’s update. Credit and thanks to my colleague, Elizabeth McCloud (PHEAA) , for capturing today’s discussions. Dear Colleagues, Hello from Day 3 of AHEAD, where the pace shifted, the conversations deepened, and the real work . . .

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Inside the Rulemaking Room: Ritchie Morrow’s Front-Row Recap - Day 4

Mar 21, 2026

📅 December 12, 2025 Dear Colleagues … Day Four Picked Up Speed (and Pressure) By J. Ritchie Morrow, BAEd, MSEd Financial Aid Officer Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Dear Colleagues, Greetings from Day 4 of AHEAD, where the pace slowed at the start… and then quickly made up for it. The morning opened with a delay as FSA worked through a growing stack of proposals. To put that into perspective, the committee has already submitted 80 proposals in just three days . For . . .

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Inside the Rulemaking Room: Ritchie Morrow’s Front-Row Recap - Day 5

Mar 21, 2026

📅 December 12, 2025 Dear Colleague… Day Five Delivered (and We Have a Deal) By J. Ritchie Morrow, BAEd, MSEd Financial Aid Officer Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Dear Colleagues, Short and sweet today… and for once, that is a good thing. After a final round of updates, revisions, and a few side conversations, the AHEAD Negotiated Rule-making committee reached consensus on the Workforce Pell regulations . Not perfectly unanimous. One negotiator could not fully agree with every . . .

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Elevating Student Voices: NeASFAA’s Advocacy in the Nation’s Capital

Feb 25, 2026

Earlier this month, NeASFAA President-Elect Carlos Garcia, Associate Director of Financial Aid at Southeast Community College, and NeASFAA Board Secretary Susan Collins, Director of Financial Aid at Doane University, traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the NASFAA Leadership & Legislative Conference & Expo. The experience culminated in meetings on Capitol Hill, where they stood alongside colleagues from across the country to elevate the needs of students who rely on federal financial aid to pursue higher . . .

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