If you were unable to attend NASFAA's Spring 2003 Training series, you can now order the reference material distributed at the sessions. A limited supply of the materials is available. For each of the module ordered, you will receive a Participant's Handout containing information that identifies and explains the module topic. The Participant's Handout also includes mini-slides, charts, and other useful job aids. (Please note that the materials on Consortium Agreements Among Eligible Institutions are now out-of-date and no longer being sold.)
The two modules of the 2003 Spring Training series still available for purchase are:
- Debt Management: Strategies, Options, and Implications
- Federal Work-Study: Promoting Community Service
Debt Management: Strategies, Options, and Implications
Topics Covered
- Incorporating personal finance issues into financial aid counseling
- Useful on-line resources regarding consumer debt
- Basic information on credit scoring and credit reports
- Evaluating different alternative loans
- Ways to meet unmet need without resorting to private loans
- The loan consolidation process and the advantages and disadvantages of consolidation
- Innovative loan counseling concepts
What You Will Receive
- Charts detailing:
- Factors to consider when selecting a private loan
- Factors that impact a credit score
- Credit reports
- Alternative methods of meeting unmet need
- Upcoming changes to loan counseling requirements
- 2001 and 2002 State Legislation on Credit Card Solicitation to Students
- Useful debt management web sites
- The Big Chill and How Much Does that Latte Really Cost (debt management activities from The Access Group)
- Sense and Centsibility course outline (a debt management course offered at Ohio University's School of Medicine)
Federal Work-Study: Promoting Community Service
Topics Covered
- Administrative requirements for implementing community service jobs in the Federal Work-Study (FWS) program
- On- and off-campus employment requirements
- Methods to implement community service programs and achieve the minimum community service requirement
What You Will Receive
- Charts detailing:
- Federal share compensation limitations
- Recordkeeping requirements
- FWS employment conditions and limitations
- Definitions of community service terms
- Model off-campus agreement form
- Need assessment for community service program form
- Job Location and Development information sheet
- Marketing suggestions for community service employment
- Regulatory resources guide for the Federal Work-Study Program
- Policies and procedures for the Federal Work-Study Program
Cost
The price for a set of the Debt Management: Strategies, Options, and Implications, and the Federal Work-Study: Promoting Community Service modules is $35 for Members and $70 for nonmembers. The price for individual modules is $20 per module for Members and $40 per module for nonmembers.
To Order
To order the Spring Training series materials, print out the NASFAA Publications Order Form at http://www.nasfaa.org/Publications/PubForm.html and return it to NASFAA with your payment.
Contact Information
Questions about the content of the modules may be addressed to AskRegs@NASFAA.org.
Questions related to module orders should be addressed to pubs@NASFAA.org.
What Your Colleagues Have to
Say About the Workshop Materials
Here is what some our workshop attendees have to say about their workshop experiences:
"The regulatory citations on the handouts are very useful." Financial aid administrator from a four-year public school, two to five years experience – Morgantown, WV workshop
"The handouts are a great reference and the slideshow really pinpointed the facts." Financial aid administrator from a four-year private school, less than two years experience – Hanover, NH workshop
"All the materials are outstanding!" Financial aid administrator from a public school, with more than 15 years experience – Lexington, KY workshop
Updated February 13, 2006 on www.NASFAA.org, the Web Site of the
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).
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