Gainful Employment Negotiated Rulemaking Committee 2013

Federal Negotiator

U.S. Department of 

Education

John Kolotos

U.S. Department of Education

Non-Federal Negotiators

Community of Interest Primary Alternate

Students Rory O’Sullivan, Policy and Research 

Director, Young Invincibles

Kalwis Lo, Legislative Director, United 

States Student Association

Legal assistance 

organizations that 

represent students

Eileen Connor, Senior Staff Attorney, 

Special Litigation Unit, New York Legal 

Assistance Group

Whitney Barkley, Staff Attorney, 

Mississippi Center for Justice

Consumer advocacy 

organizations

Margaret Reiter Tom Tarantino, Chief Policy Officer, Iraq 

and Afghanistan Veterans of America

Financial aid 

administrators

Kevin Jensen, Financial Aid Director, 

College of Western Idaho

Rhonda Mohr, Student Financial Aid 

Specialist, California Community 

Colleges Chancellor’s Office

State higher education 

executive officers

Jack Warner, Executive Director and 

CEO, South Dakota Board of Regents

Sandra Kinney, Vice President of 

Institutional Research and Planning, 

Louisiana Community and Technical 

College System

State attorneys general 

and other appropriate 

State officials

Della Justice, Special Assistant Attorney 

General, Kentucky Attorney General

Libby DeBlasio, Assistant Attorney 

General, Colorado Department of Law, 

Consumer Protection Section, 

Consumer Fraud Unit

Business and industry 1. Ted Daywalt, CEO and President, VetJobs Thomas Kriger, Research Director, 

Building and Construction Trades 

Department, AFL-CIO, Director, 

Standing Committee on Apprenticeship 

and Training

Minority serving 

institutions

Helga Greenfield, Associate Vice 

President for College Relations and 

Director of Title III and Government 

Relations, Spelman College

Ronnie Higgs, Vice President, Student 

Affairs and Enrollment Services at 

California State University, Monterey 

Bay
Community of Interest Primary Alternate

Two-year public 

institutions

Richard Heath, Financial Aid Director, 

Anne Arundel Community College

Glen Gabert, President, Hudson County 

Community College

Four-year public 

institutions

Barmak Nassirian, Director of Federal 

Policy Analysis, American Association of 

State Colleges and Universities

2. Barbara Hoblitzell, Associate Director, 

Student Financial Support, University of 

California Office of the President

Private, non-profit 

institutions

Jenny Rickard, Vice President for 

Enrollment, University of Puget Sound

Thomas Dalton, Assistant Vice President 

for Enrollment Management, Excelsior 

College

Private, for-profit 

institutions—publicly 

traded

Brian Jones, General Counsel, Strayer 

University

Raymond Testa, Vice President of 

Government Affairs & Compliance, 

Empire Education Group 

Private, for-profit 

institutions-- not 

publicly traded

3. Marc Jerome, Board Member, 

Association of Proprietary Colleges in 

New York and Executive Vice President, 

Monroe College

Justin Berkowitz, Vice President of 

Operations, Daytona College 

Accrediting agencies Belle Wheelan, President, Southern 

Association of Colleges and Schools 

Commission on Colleges

Neil Harvison, Chair, Association of 

Specialized and Professional 

Accreditors, Chief Academic and 

Scientific Affairs Officer of the American

Occupational Therapy Association

August 2, 2013