#	Subject	Summary of Change to Common Manual	Type of Update	Effective Date	
1246	Purchasing Necessary Books and Supplies	4.4.B    Student Consumer Information
6.4.B    When Disbursements May Be 
         Scheduled  
8.2.A    Initial Notice of Funds
8.3      Required Authorizations
8.7.C    Early Delivery
8.7.D    Delayed Delivery
8.8.B    Managing Credit Balances
8.9.B    Return of Ineligible Borrower 
         Loan Funds
9.5.A    Return Amounts for Title IV Grant
         and Loan Programs

Addresses the requirement that schools provide a means by which certain Pell grant-eligible students may receive disbursements of Title IV credit balance funds for necessary books and supplies.
	Federal	Title IV credit balances to Pell-grant eligible students for necessary books and supplies for the payment period for periods beginning on or after July 1, 2011.	
1247	Last Date of Attendance at an Academically-Related
Activity 	9.4     Withdrawal Dates

Modifies the examples of events that constitute an academically-related activities and clarifies that such activities do not include those at which a student may be present but not academically engaged.  

Provides new examples of activities that are not considered academically related.
	Federal	Student withdrawal determinations made by a school on or after July 1, 2011.	
1248	Return of Title IV Funds in a Credit-Hour Program Offered in Modules	9.4     Withdrawal Dates
9.5.A   Return Amounts for Title IV Grant 
        and Loan Programs

States that a student is considered to have withdrawn from a credit-hour program offered in modules if the student does not complete all of the calendar days in the payment period or period of enrollment that the student was scheduled to attend.  

Clarification is provided for classes the student is “scheduled to attend” in cases when a student drops or adds a course prior to ceasing attendance.  A student enrolled in a non-term-based or nonstandard term-based credit-hour program offered in modules is considered to have withdrawn if the student is not scheduled to begin another course within 45 days after the end of the module that the student ceased attending, unless the student is on an approved leave of absence.  If a student enrolled in a credit-hour program offered in modules does not earn at least one passing grade in the last course(s) of the last module that he or she was scheduled to attend and the school cannot demonstrate that the student completed the last course(s), the school must assume that the student unofficially withdrew.  

Clarifies the percentage of the period completed for a student who withdraws from such a program.

Provides a decision tree for determining whether a student has withdrawn from a credit-hour program offered in modules, describes cases in which a student who ceases attendance in a credit-hour program offered in modules is not considered to have withdrawn, and describes events that may require a school to disburse unearned aid that was previously returned or canceled due a student’s withdrawal when the student returns to a subsequent module within the same payment period or, as applicable, period of enrollment.  
	Federal	School determinations of a student’s withdrawal from a credit-hour program offered in modules on or after July 1, 2011	

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