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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnasfaa.informz.net%2Fz%2FcjUucD9taT05OTI0ODgxJnA9MSZ1PTEwMDcwMDc2MTQmbGk9ODUxMDYyMjc%2Findex.html&data=04%7C01%7Clori.boyd%40okstate.edu%7C30eb9b13652d4ba5b39b08d8ed2a59d7%7C2a69c91de8494e34a230cdf8b27e1964%7C0%7C1%7C637520113439147728%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=tkNbkYK%2FrTkgV5KT3vUYbTDq3cPRAjXD5YiAL7FM5rg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">ED
Provides Additional Flexibilities to HEERF Grants</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:black">On Friday, the Department of Education (ED) released new guidance on the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) grants authorized by Congress in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,
and Economic Security (CARES) Act, and later supplemented in the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (CRRSAA) and in the American Rescue Plan (ARP). The department addresses three significant outstanding questions in the guidance.
First, it clarifies that HEERF grants may be used for institutional coronavirus-related costs and student expenses dating back to March 13, 2020, a change from previous guidance. Second, it clarifies that qualified aliens are eligible to receive HEERF emergency
grants. Third, it addresses issues surrounding lost revenue as an allowable use of institutional funds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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