Every year, NASFAA develops its information-packed training series on topics of interest that are identified
by association members and selected by NASFAA’s Training and Professional Development Committee. This year’s training will focus on
implementing Final Rules negotiated as a result of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, or HEA. To ensure the timely
delivery of information, NASFAA will offer Fall 2009 Fall Training as a series of Webinars. A few states will offer facilitated discussions
in conjunction with the Webinars. States offering facilitated discussions.
The Fall Training series will consist of four different Webinars prepared and delivered by NASFAA staff.
The Webinars will be offered November 12th, November 19th, November 24th, and December 16th. The first three Webinars will include
approximately 60-90 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of questions and answers. The final Webinar will be devoted to a question
and answer session which will be a combination of questions from the earlier three webinars and live questions submitted during the actual Webinar.
After the final Webinar, a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) will be developed and disseminated to all participants.
1. Provide an initial analysis of the impacts of the final regulations;
2. Discuss how to implement the provisions of the new regulations at the institution;
3. Identify possible changes to systems or programming, information dissemination, and policies and procedures; and
4. Provide a knowledge base for further training on the final rules at the national, state or regional level.
Webinar Content
Initial identification of Webinar content is based on the degree of consensus reached during the Spring 2009 negotiated rulemaking sessions and the recently released Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs) related to loans and non-loan/general issues. The final regulations will determine the final content for each Webinar. The NASFAA Fall Training Web site will be updated as we refine the content for each of the Webinars.
Based on currently available information, the proposed content for the Webinars is as follows:
November 12 - Implementing Reauthorization
Final Rules:
Loan issues including preferred lender relationships, cohort default rate calculations, and new Title IV and private education loan disclosure requirements (Team II of Spring 2009 negotiated rulemaking)
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November 19 - Implementing Reauthorization Final
Rules: General and Non-Loan Program Issues, Part 1
Student consumer information issues, GAP/LEAP issues, peer to peer file sharing, students with intellectual disabilities, and TEACH Grant extenuating circumstances (Team V of Spring 2009 negotiated rulemaking)
November 24 - Implementing Reauthorization Final Rules: General and Non-Loan Program Issues, Part 2
Federal Pell Grants (year-round and children of soldiers), Federal Work-Study issues, readmission for service members, 90/10 issues, teach-outs, and baccalaureate in liberal arts in proprietary schools (Team V of Spring 2009 negotiated rulemaking)
December 16 - Implementing Reauthorization Final
Rules: Questions and Answers
Questions and Answer session based on prior Webinars
plus questions submitted during this Webinar
Tools and reference materials will be available for download prior to each Webinar. After the December 16th Webinar, each participant will receive a copy of the FAQ for the series.
Webinar Fees
A site license for each Webinar is $95 per Webinar for
NASFAA members and $195 for non-members. If a member registers for all four
2009 Fall Training Webinars, they will be eligible for a $50 rebate – making
the entire series only $330 for members. NASFAA will contact members when they
qualify for the rebate once all four live Webinars have ended. A registered
participant will have access to the live Webinar and a recorded archive,
including the presentation and handouts, for up to five months after the live
Webinars. The site license allows each registered participant to invite as
many people from their institution as they wish to view the live Webinar from
a single login.
To register for any or all of the Webinars, please visit NASFAA’s Webinar Center.
Who Should Attend
The training is designed for financial aid administrators and staff from other institutional offices who are responsible for implementing reauthorization Final Rules.
11/12: Staff with responsibilities related to loans and institution affiliated organizations [such as athletics, alumni, business office, social organizations (e.g., sororities and fraternities)] to the extent that they endorse, recommend, or promote FFEL or private education loans [there are two separate code of conduct requirements that go beyond the financial aid office-one requirement applies to schools that participate in a preferred lender arrangement and the other applies to schools that participate in any Title IV program, regardless of whether the school participates in a preferred lender list]; staff responsible for FFEL and Federal Perkins Loan counseling; and other non-financial aid office administrative staff if the school has concerns with the level of its FFEL/Direct Loan cohort default rate.
11/19 - Business office staff responsible for accounting and reporting for financial aid programs and/or determining and reporting the matching funds on the FISAP (LEAP/GAP changes and match); staff responsible for consumer information (including campus safety); technology staff responsible for peer-to-peer file sharing
11/24 - Business office staff (90/10 provisions for proprietary schools and readmission of servicemembers for all schools); Veterans coordinator (Pell Grants and readmission of servicemembers); admission and registrar (readmission of servicemembers); and staff at for-profit institutions who make decisions about starting and terminating new programs (new definition of liberal arts program and teach-outs).
What You Will Learn
Participants will learn the implications of implementing the reauthorization Final Rules. The training will emphasize the impact on policies and procedures, the role of other institutional offices, and the dissemination of information.
What You Will Receive
Handouts will include:
Resource Charts
Discussion Points
PowerPoint Handout
Training materials currently available for purchase are:
Fall 2008 – Aspects of Student Eligibility focuses on the many aspects of student eligibility – from database matches to drug convictions, documenting veteran status, 2009-10 Federal Methodology and cost of attendance.
Fall 2007 – Counseling Students and Families: Tackling Financial Issues focuses
on how to explain to students and families in layman’s terms how their financial
resources and family demographics are used to calculate the expected family
contribution (EFC) under Federal Methodology (FM), and other options available
to them when the standard approach does not work.
Fall
2006 - Verification explains the difference between “verification” of
data used to calculate a student’s expected family contribution (EFC) and “conflicting
information.” In addition, the materials cover the Higher Education Reconciliation
Act (HERA), which changes several need analysis formula data elements.
Fall 2005 - Administrative Capability: Campus-Wide
Compliance examines administrative capability in the context of a campus-wide
effort. Focus is on developing strategies to ensure and strengthen the
cross-campus communication necessary to demonstrate Title IV administrative
capability.
Fall 2000 - Professional Judgment, includes guiding principles
and a discussion of each of the areas to which professional judgment applies,
including case studies.
Please direct all questions and comments about NASFAA
Fall Training to Connie McCormick.
