Editing Herzing Issues: Financial Aid (section)

=== HU-048: DOE rule effective July 1, 2026 reclassifies nurses as no longer "professional students," eliminating Graduate PLUS loan eligibility; students considering withdrawal due to ProctorU incidents not informed of this material financial consequence ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:14em" | Severity
| Critical
! Status
| CONFIRMED
|-
! Issue type
| Material Financial Risk / Failure to Notify
! Date added
| 2026-05-04
|-
! Owner
| colspan="3" | Financial Aid Department / Academic Affairs / Compliance
|}
'''Finding.''' Per the tracker's evidence, a Department of Education rule effective July 1, 2026 reclassifies nurses as no longer "professional students," eliminating Graduate PLUS loan eligibility for students who withdraw. Herzing students considering withdrawal due to ProctorU incidents were not informed of this material financial consequence.

'''Evidence.''' Herzing Proctor U Students GroupMe (May 1, 2026): the reporting student warned students considering withdrawal. Students Student BR, Student BS, and Student BQ were all actively considering withdrawal due to ProctorU false-flag course failures at the time of this warning. Source Group: Multiple GroupMe Archives: Herzing Nursing 2027; Herzing MSNDE 2026 (Jan to Jun 2025); Health Assessment NSG121 (Jan to Apr 2025); Herzing ProctorU Students; Herzing MSN-PNP Summer 2025.

'''Reported statement.''' <blockquote>As of today the Department of Education has released a rule that designates nurses as no longer professional students. If you withdraw and you are not at another program by July 1, you are no longer eligible for the grad plus loan.</blockquote>

'''Standards.''' 34 CFR Part 682 (FFEL/Direct Loan regulations); 20 U.S.C. §1078-2 (PLUS Loan); 34 CFR §668.14 (institutional obligations to provide accurate financial information). Institutions have an affirmative duty to inform students of material changes in financial aid eligibility, particularly when those changes are triggered by institutional actions (such as course failures caused by ProctorU false-flags) that may drive students to withdraw.

'''Impact.''' Students who withdrew due to ProctorU-caused course failures after July 1, 2026 may permanently lose Graduate PLUS loan eligibility if not enrolled in another qualifying program. For students whose withdrawals were caused by institutional failures, the financial harm compounds the academic harm.

'''Notes.''' This issue is particularly urgent because the July 1, 2026 deadline is imminent at the time of this document update. The intersection of ProctorU false-flags ({{HU|HU-030}}) causing course failures, driving withdrawal decisions, with this financial aid rule change creates a compounding harm scenario with direct institutional liability.

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