{{this | the institutional closure arrangement | the surname | Teachout}} [[File:Trinity_Chapel,_Dana_College_1.JPG | thumb | Dana College entered teach-out status in 2010.]] [[File:UCU teach-out at KCL entrance during March 2020 industrial action.jpg|thumb|Teach-out staged by the University and College Union in front of King's College London in 2020]] A '''teach-out''' or '''teachout''' is an arrangement by which an educational institution provides its current students with the opportunity to complete their course of study when the institution closes or stops accepting new students into the course.{{sfn | Congressional Research Service | 2019 | loc= Summary}}
One common teach-out arrangement is for an institution or program to stop accepting new entrants, but continue teaching existing students until they have completed their course of study. Another common arrangement is for an institution to have an agreement for another institution (the "teach-out institution") to allow all students of the closing institution to complete their program at the teach-out institution.{{sfn | Congressional Research Service | 2019 | pp=2-3}}
In the United States, all federally recognized accreditors must require every institution they accredit to submit a teach-out plan.<ref>{{UnitedStatesCode|20|1099b}}</ref> Each accreditor sets plan requirements independently, however, and there are no universal requirements.{{sfn | Congressional Research Service | 2019 | p=2}} The Higher Education Act of 1965 was amended to add the teach-out requirement in 1992.<ref>{{Cite journal | url = https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4256&context=lcp | accessdate = 2020-02-05 | title = Recent Developments Concerning Accrediting Agencies in Postsecondary Education | journal = Law and Contemporary Problems | volume = 57 | issue = 4 | first = Jeffrey C. | last = Martin | year = 1994 | pages = 140–141 | doi = 10.2307/1192059 | jstor = 1192059 | pmid = 10140655 | url-access = subscription }}</ref>
In Australia, under the Higher Education Standards Framework 2015, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) requires all providers of accredited courses to prepare a teachout plan.<ref name="teqsa">{{Cite web | url = https://www.teqsa.gov.au/withdrawing-courseteachout | accessdate = 2020-02-05 | title = Withdrawing a course/teachout | author = Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency }}</ref> Teachout arrangements must ensure that "all existing students can either complete the course of study, or transition to a mutually agreed course at no disadvantage".<ref name="teqsa"/> Accreditation requirements must continue to be met until teachout is complete.<ref name="teqsa"/> A provider may place a course in teachout mode, or TEQSA may do so on its own initiative.<ref name="teqsa"/>
A teach-out can also occur when a trade union in the educational realm puts on an event as part of an industrial action, where speakers deliver classroom-like content that purportedly replaces whatever regular classes might be missed due to the action. More generally, teach-outs can refer to any event that exists along the lines of, in the words of the University of Michigan, "just-in-time global community learning events focusing on current issues, that enable a wide variety of people to join the [institution's] campus community in exploring a timely topic."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://ai.umich.edu/blog/from-teach-in-to-teach-out-recap-of-the-academic-innovation-forum-on-broadening-the-university-of-michigan-community/ | title=From Teach-In to Teach-Out – Recap of the Academic Innovation Forum on Broadening the University of Michigan Community | author-first=Eric | author-last=Joyce | publisher=University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation | access-date=March 14, 2020}}</ref>
== Works cited == *{{Cite web | url = https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44737.pdf | accessdate = 2020-02-05 | title = The Closure of Institutions of Higher Education: Student Options, Borrower Relief, and Other Implications | author = Congressional Research Service | year = 2019 }}
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== External links == * [https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/my-school-is-planning-to-close-and-i-am-being-offered-a-teach-out-to-complete-my-program-what-happens-to-my-student-loans-en-1889/ US Consumer Finance Protection Bureau page on teach-outs]
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