The 2006-07 NASFAA Awards Committee is pleased to announce the call for nominations and entries for the many awards that NASFAA sponsors each year. New this year is the Regional Award to recognize initiatives supporting innovative and positive change in student financial aid. (See additional details below.) The submission deadline for nominations and entries is Feb. 28, 2007.
NASFAA also sponsors an institutional poster session activity to showcase innovative institutional programs. The deadline for the institutional poster session activity is also Feb. 28, 2007.
We encourage you to participate in this process!
NASFAA Regional AwardsNew in 2007
This award was created to recognize activities of regional associations. The intent is to encourage and publicize initiatives that have provided service to students, parents, families, or constituencies or colleagues within the profession. The award is not necessarily given annually.
A selected regional association receives a display banner to reside permanently with the regional association. Award presentation takes place at NASFAA's Conference beginning in 2007.
We hope that regions will share their innovative activities through this new award opportunity. Additional information about the Regional Awards can be found on the NASFAA Web site at: www.nasfaa.org/Annualpubs/Awards/RegionalAwards.html
NASFAA State Awards
The purpose of the State Awards is to recognize individual state associations of student financial aid administrators for outstanding projects that contribute to the financial aid profession. This recognition is to encourage creative and innovative service to individuals or groups of individuals who are directly or indirectly involved in student financial aid. Up to four awards can be given, one in each of the following categories:
- Service to the Financial Aid Profession
- Service to Students, Parents, or Families
- Service to Other Constituencies, e.g., legislators, other institutional administrators, secondary school counselors, etc. and
- Service to Advance the Goals of Access and Diversity
Winning state associations receive a $500 award and a display banner that resides permanently with the state association. Presentation of the awards takes place at the NASFAA Conference.
We know that state associations are engaged in many exciting projects and want every new and innovative project to be considered for an award. Additional information about the State Awards can be found on the NASFAA Web site at:
www.nasfaa.org/Annualpubs/Awards/State-Award.html
A description of all entries from 2006 is also available on the NASFAA Web site at:
www.nasfaa.org/publications/2006/nstateawards082306.html
Individual NASFAA Awards
In addition to the State Awards, the Awards Committee assists in the selection of the NASFAA State and Regional Leadership Awards and other individual awards to recognize service to NASFAA, the financial aid profession, and students and families. We invite you to submit nominations for these awards. Information about the awards can be found at:
www.nasfaa.org/annualpubs/awards/awardscenter.asp
Institutional Recognition
The Institutional Showcase Poster Session recognizes institutions that have developed new and creative programs to help students and families, train staff, insure compliance, or otherwise improve the delivery of student financial aid. The goal of the activity is to focus attention on institutional efforts, and in doing so, to help other institutions adopt or modify their practices to better help their students.
Recognition will be offered in the form of a certificate of participation, a letter to the institution's chief executive officer acknowledging participation, and inclusion in a NASFAA project listing. There is no cash prize. Additional poster submission details can be found in the 2007 Call for Entries at: www.nasfaa.org/publications/2006/n07postersession102706.html
Additional information on the 2006 Institutional Showcase Poster Session can be found on the NASFAA web site at: www.nasfaa.org/publications/2006/npostersession071706.html
Again, we encourage your participation in the NASFAA awards process. The deadline for receipt of state and regional award submissions as well as individual award nominations and poster session proposals is February 28, 2007. The NASFAA Web site includes additional information - including submission forms - for all of these awards at: govtaffairs@nasfaa.org.
By David Myette
2006-07 Awards Committee Chair
Champlain College
Committee Members
Mr. David Cecil, Transylvania University, KY
Mrs. Georgette R. DeVeres, Claremont McKenna College, CA
Mr. John Gritts, Institute of American Indian Arts, NM
Ms. Mary E. Miller, American Education Services, PA
Ms. Virginia K. Washington, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IN
Ms. Susan E. Weinreis, Montana State University - Billings, MT
Commission Director
Mr. Douglas Severs, Idaho State University, ID
Posted October 27, 2006 on www.NASFAA.org, the Web Site of the
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).
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