Determine whether National Aviation Academy of Tampa Bay applied, documented, and reported their use of professional judgment, including dependency override, in accordance with the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA).
The school did not adequately document special circumstances for 34 of the 37 students for whom it applied professional judgment, including dependency override, for award year 2017–2018 or award year 2018–2019, and therefore was not in accordance with sections 479A and 480 of the HEA.
We made three recommendations, including that the National Aviation Academy of Tampa Bay provide additional records that adequately document its use of professional judgment for the students identified in our sample, or return Pell grant funds to the U.S. Department of Education.
Oversight and Monitoring—Student Financial Assistance Programs
See other OIG reports on professional judgment.