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Executive Director Appointed to a Second U.S. DOE Negotiated Rulemaking Team

The NLNAC Board of Commissioners and staff are pleased to announce that Dr. Sharon Tanner, NLNAC’s Executive Director, has been appointed by the United States Department of Education to serve on a second negotiated rulemaking team.  Negotiated rulemaking is the process of developing recommendations for proposed regulations at the committee level.  The recommendations, which must reflect consensus of the team, are then presented to the Department of Education for possible use in final regulations.  Earlier this year, Dr. Tanner was the primary negotiator representing specialized accreditors on Team III Accreditation, which developed proposed regulations for the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.  The Team successfully completed its work in May 2009. 

In this new session of negotiated rulemaking which will meet for three week-long meetings in November, December, and January, Dr. Tanner will represent the interests of regional/programmatic accreditors on Team I Program Integrity.  The Team will work on proposed language for regulations used by the Department of Education to oversee institutions that receive federal financial aid under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.  Issues include the definition of a credit hour, definition of a high school diploma, satisfactory academic process, retaking coursework, state authorization, and misrepresentation of information, among others.
    

2010 SELF-STUDY FORUMS
Chicago, Illinois - March 25-26, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia - April 8-9, 2010

  
Introducing a Special Session
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at the Atlanta Forum, April 8, 2010
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The NLNAC has completed the relocation to Atlanta. The NLNAC New York office has closed. Please direct all communications to:
 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 500
 Atlanta, GA 30326
 P. 404.975.5000   F. 404.975.5020
   

 
NLNAC is pleased to announce the 2009 election results. 
We welcome Marlene Bacon, PhD, RN, and Pamela V. Hammond, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, who have been elected to serve three-year terms as nursing education representatives on the NLNAC Board of Commissioners.  In other election results, Elizabeth H. Mahaffey, PhD, RN was re-elected as a nursing education representative, Karen Hill, MSN, RN, CNAA-BC, FACHE, was re-elected as a nursing service representative, and  Marsha Purcell, CAE, was re-elected as a public representative. All three will serve a second three-year term on the Board of Commissioners. Betsy Mann, MSN, RN, CNE, was elected to the NLNAC Nominating Committee.