11/23/2025
🚨🚨URGENT: PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW OPEN🚨🚨
The U.S. Department of Education has released proposed rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that may exclude nursing from the definition of a “professional degree.”
If this moves forward, advanced nursing programs — including MSN, DNP, APRN, CRNA, CNM, and CNS pathways could face lower federal loan caps and reduced borrowing options compared to other recognized professions.
This is not a small administrative change.
This directly impacts: the pipeline of advanced practice nurses, access to DNP and doctoral education, the future nursing faculty workforce, students of color and first-generation students who rely on federal loans, the stability of our national nursing infrastructure.
Public comment is our moment to act.
📢 Federal policy is being shaped right now, and our collective voice must be part of the record.
Here’s how to engage:
Register for an account: https://lnkd.in/epA_JQCw
✔️Review the proposed rule in the Federal Register
✔️Submit a written public comment — as an individual, educator, student, or organization: https://www.nasfaa.org/.../You_Have_Questions_We_Have...
✔️Be clear about the impact on nursing access, workforce equity, and patient care.
✔️Encourage colleagues, campuses, and professional organizations to submit their own comments.
Nursing is a profession.
Our education, our training, and our contributions to the health and safety of this nation must be recognized in federal policy.
Let’s make sure the Department of Education hears from us.
Let’s SHIFT the narrative together.
