Office of General Counsel

Welcome to CLIC, the "Campus Legal Information Clearinghouse."

CLIC is a collaborative effort between the American Council on Education (ACE) and The Catholic University of America's Office of General Counsel. The University is especially grateful to ACE for its encouragement and support of CLIC. Appropriate high quality contributions of material are gratefully accepted. Please note this site is speech enabled through Browse Aloud.

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Not Legal Advice
This website does not and cannot provide legal advice regarding specific or individual legal problems. Users should consult their own legal counsel regarding specific problems. Materials on this site are not warranted or in any way guaranteed to assure complete legal compliance. 

Who We Are provides a description of the staff at The Catholic University of America's Office of General Counsel. 

Higher Education Regulations Study: See the Press Release describing the Advisory Committee's plans to move beyond Title IV regulations and begin to examine the impact of all federal regulations within the Higher Education Act as a second phase of the congressionally mandated Higher Education Regulations Study. The Committee encourages the public to help identify regulations in higher education that are duplicative, no longer necessary, inconsistent with other federal regulations, and/or overly burdensome. Specifically, the Advisory Committee seeks to quantify the level of burden placed on institutions by such regulations. Comments will be taken by the Advisory Committee staff or through the Committee's public comment webpage or by telephone (202-219-2099).Section 1098 of the HEOA (2008) tasked the Department of Education with looking at the regulatory burden imposed on IHEs. Section 1106 of the HEOA mandated a study by the National Academy of Sciences to be entered into by the Secretary of Education.  To date this study remains unfunded.

Higher Education Act Student Consumer Information: Clicking on this link takes you to a web page that contains institutional information required for disclosure for all schools participating in Title IV programs. If no information is posted, there is a name and email for the person on campus who can direct you to the information you seek. For more on this requirement, see the November 2009 Report titled "Information Required to Be Disclosed under the Higher Education Act of 1965: Suggestions for Dissemination."

_{Photo Credits
The photos in the montage come from the CUA Archives. The latin inscription is the Mullen Library Front Door, circa 1974, and the other photo is the view of Mullen from the Shrine, circa the 70s}.