While officials at for-profit colleges anxiously await the release of regulations that could limit borrowing by their students, rumors about the content and timing of the new rules abound. Kelly Field and Sara Hebel discuss the rumors, and James Kvaal, the White House economic adviser who will replace Bob Shireman as the department's top appointee on higher education.

Kelly Field, The Chronicle's chief Washington reporter, and Sara Hebel, our politics editor, spend a minute (or so) each week discussing the key higher-education debates and behind-the-scenes maneuvering taking place in the nation's capital. Look for new episodes every Tuesday.