Shannon,

I don’t think any substantive changes would be
made to the published report that is delivered to the Department in
September, especially since the Commission took their final vote on the
report last week.

The Department of Education certainly is making it seem like this will serve as the final report, as least on its web site.  Also, higher education associations, like NAICU and ACE, are making it sound like this is the final work product.  This ACE press release also makes it seem like the 28-page draft is the final product.

Regardless, I don’t think any changes to the report would
affect my point regarding the increased federal role in higher
education that would occur if many of the recommendations are adopted.

I certainly could be wrong though–it would be nice if changes were included that aren’t reflected in the August 9th report.