{"id":"AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-084","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education and Federal Student Aid (federal agency)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION","eco":"","issuer":"Office of Postsecondary Education","authority":"20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.; 34 C.F.R. parts 600, 668; HEA section 487","instrument":"Electronic Announcement, Guidance for interruptions of study related to Coronavirus (COVID-19) (posted Mar. 5, 2020; updated Apr. 3, May 15 and June 16, 2020)","title":"Guidance for interruptions of study related to Coronavirus (COVID-19) (Updated June 16, 2020)","dateIssued":"2020-03-05","effective":"2020-03-05","end":"End of the academic year that includes Dec. 31, 2020 or the end of the federally declared emergency, whichever is later (per the June 16, 2020 update); extended by later announcements through 2021-22","startDate":"2020-03-05","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["SCH","OTHER"],"addressees":["institutions of higher education participating in Title IV"],"clause":"POSTED DATE: March 05, 2020 AUTHOR: Office of Postsecondary Education SUBJECT: Guidance for interruptions of study related to Coronavirus (COVID-19) (Updated June 16, 2020)... [the June 16 update announces] flexibilities for standard term programs and extending the timeframe for those flexibilities through the end of the academic year that includes December 31, 2020 or the end date for the COVID-19 Federally declared emergency, whichever occurs later.","enforcement":"Title IV program participation and eligibility (34 C.F.R. part 668 subpart B and G)","functions":["IN: broad approval for institutions to move Title IV-eligible programs to distance education without the ordinary accreditor and Departmental approvals -- the federal permission that made campus closures compatible with continued federal aid","RL","AD","OP financial aid administration"],"notes":"Context exhibit for the education sector; the Department\u0027s own record that instruction was interrupted nationally.","sourceUrl":"https://ifap.ed.gov/electronic-announcements/030520Guidance4interruptionsrelated2CoronavirusCOVID19","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":337773,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION","url":"/library/AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-084","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-084","citation":"Office of Postsecondary Education, Electronic Announcement, Guidance for interruptions of study related to Coronavirus (COVID-19) (posted Mar. 5, 2020; updated Apr. 3, May 15 and June 16, 2020) (Ex. AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-084)","stateName":"","related":[]}