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Focusing exclusively on legal issues related to educational institutions, Annie centers her practice on considerations tied to compliance with Title IV Federal Student Aid and student funding requirements. She advises higher education clients on regulatory, consumer disclosure, accreditation, governance, risk management, nondiscrimination (including Title IX), and operations issues confronted in college and university environments. Annie regularly works closely with institutions responding to regulatory actions brought by the U.S. Department of Education, including Federal Student Aid program reviews, and she performs in-depth compliance audits, policy reviews and training.

The U.S. Department of Education is urging institutions to include privacy protections that reach beyond the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) in contracts with app and other online educational service providers. Guidance from the Department’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (including model contract terms and a basic employee training video) provides insight on