Program Integrity and Improvement Negotiated Rulemaking Committee 2014

Facilitators

Facilitators Charles Pou

Craig Bagemihl

Federal Negotiators

U.S. Department of 

Education

Carney McCullough

U.S. Department of Education

Pam Moran

U.S. Department of Education

Non-Federal Negotiators

Community of Interest Primary Alternate

Students Chris Lindstrom

Higher Education Program Director

U.S. Public Interest Research Group

Maxwell John Love

Vice President

United States Student Association

Legal assistance 

organizations that 

represent students

Whitney Barkley

Staff Attorney

Mississippi Center for Justice

Toby Merrill

Director

Project on Predatory Student Lending

The Legal Services Center

Harvard Law School

Consumer advocacy 

organizations

Suzanne Martindale

Staff Attorney

Consumers Union

State attorneys general 

and other appropriate 

State officials

Carolyn Fast

Special Counsel

Consumer Frauds and Protection 

Bureau

New York Attorney General’s Office

Jenny Wojewoda

Assistant Attorney General

Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Financial aid 

administrators

David Sheridan

Director of Financial Aid School of 

International & Public Affairs

Columbia University in the City of New 

York

Paula Luff

Associate Vice President of Financial Aid

DePaul University

Business officers and 

bursars at postsecondary 

institutions

Gloria Kobus

Director of Student Accounts & 

University Receivables

Youngstown State University

Joan Piscitello

Treasurer

Iowa State University
Community of Interest Primary Alternate

Minority serving 

institutions

David Swinton

President

Benedict College

George French

President

Miles College

Two-year public 

institutions

Brad Hardison

Financial Aid Director

Santa Barbara City College

Melissa Gregory

Chief Enrollment Services and Financial Aid 

Officer

Montgomery College

Four-year public 

institutions

Chuck Knepfle

Financial Aid Director 

Clemson University

J. Goodlett McDaniel

Associate Provost for Distance Education 

George Mason University

Private, non-profit 

institutions

Elizabeth Hicks

Executive Director

Student Financial Services

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joe Weglarz

Executive Director

Student Financial Services

Marist College

Private, for-profit 

institutions

Deborah Bushway

Chief Academic Officer and Vice 

President of Academic Innovation

Capella University

Valerie Mendelsohn

Vice President

Compliance and Risk Management

American Career College

Institutional third-party 

servicers

Casey McGuane

Chief Operations Officer

Higher One

1.

Bill Norwood

Chief Architect and Director

Heartland Payment Systems

Distance education Russ Poulin

Deputy Director

Research and Analysis

WICHE Cooperative for Educational 

Technologies

Marshall Hill

Executive Director

National Council for State Authorization 

Reciprocity Agreements

Business and industry Dan Toughey

President

TouchNet

Michael Gradisher

Vice President of Regulatory and Legal 

Affairs

Pearson Embanet

Lenders, community 

banks, and credit unions

Paul Kundert

President and CEO

University of Wisconsin Credit Union

2.

Tom Levandowski

Senior Company Counsel

Wells Fargo Bank Law Department

Consumer Lending & Corporate Regulatory 

Division

Accrediting agencies Leah Matthews

Executive Director

Distance Education and Training 

Council

Elizabeth Sibolski

President

Middle States Commission on Higher 

Education

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