Publication Date: March 2008
DCL ID: ANN-08-03
Subject: TEACH Grant Implementation and Processing Webinar
Summary: This letter announces Federal Student Aid's first TEACH Grant Implementation and Processing Webinar for school financial aid administrators and their staff. This webinar will provide an opportunity to learn more about the operational implementation of the TEACH Grant Program and to prepare for that implementation.
Dear Colleague:
We are pleased to announce our first TEACH Grant Implementation and Processing
Webinar for school financial aid administrators and their staff. This one hour
and thirty minute webinar will be offered on Thursday, April 10, 2008
from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern Time.
Note: There may be a difference between your local time and Eastern
Time. Please click on the link http://www.time.gov/
to determine your local time and its Eastern Time zone equivalent.
As explained in Dear
Colleague Letter GEN-08-01 posted on the Information for Financial Aid Professionals
(IFAP) Web site, the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (the CCRAA),
Pub. L. 110-84, created the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher
Education (TEACH) Grant Program. This program is effective beginning with the
2008-2009 Award Year and provides up to $4,000 a year in grant assistance to
students who plan on becoming a teacher and meet certain specified requirements.
If a student who receives a TEACH Grant does not complete the required teaching,
the grant must be repaid as a Direct Unsubsidized Loan under the William D.
Ford Federal Direct Loan Program.
We have posted initial communications about the operational implementation
of the TEACH Grant Program on the IFAP Web
site. As we work over the next several months to fully implement functionality
for processing TEACH Grant awards, we will post additional communications about
the necessary updates to our systems, software, and technical documentation.
In addition to our posted communications, we are presenting this webinar as
another opportunity for school financial aid administrators and their staff
to learn more about the operational implementation of the TEACH Grant Program
and to prepare for that implementation.
The topics that we will cover in the TEACH Grant Implementation and Processing
Webinar are as follows:
This webinar will be conducted using Federal Student Aid's distance education
software, which allows you to participate without leaving your desk. Registration
is required for this webinar; to register, please click on the following link:
http://www.fsaregistration.ed.gov/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x4506818189
For this webinar, you will need to have a computer with an Internet connection
and a separate phone line to access the audio portion of the webinar. Please
click on the links below to determine if your system meets the requirements
to access the webinar.
This link provides system requirements: Click
Here
This link allows you to perform a browser check to ensure that you can use
all features of our Distance Education software: Click
Here
We look forward to your participation in this webinar.
Sincerely,
Claire M. Roemer
General Manager
School Services and Training Channel
Federal Student Aid
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