Several topical themes will be offered at the conference for those who want to explore specific areas of interest. Following is a list of sessions currently planned. Please note that this list is subject to change.

Compliance
•Business Taxes - 1065, 1120, and 1120S Plus Related Schedules - Part I
•Business Taxes - 1065, 1120, and 1120S Plus Related Schedules - Part II
•Comparing and Assessing Private Loans and Graduate PLUS Loans
•Developing Policies and Procedures Manuals
•An Extreme Makeover: How to Effectively Use NASFAA’s Products to Enhance Your Title IV Complexion
•FERPA - What Every Aid Administrator Should Know
•Filet of COD
•Filling in the GAAP: Accounting Principles for Financial Aid Administrators
•Identity Theft and FSA Fraud Schemes
•Financial Aid & Community Service - A Win-Win Opportunity for Students and Colleges
•Is Direct Lending Right for Your School?
•Legal Issues
•Legal Rights and Obligations During a Program Review
•NCAA Division III Update
•Personal Taxes - 1040 and Related Schedules - Part I
•Personal Taxes - 1040 and Related Schedules - Part II
•Satisfactory Academic Progress: Troubles and Triumphs
•Scholarships and Financial Aid - Centralizing the Process
•School as Lender
•The School Voice in Common Policy

Customer Service
•Boston University's Applicant Link
•College Financial Planners and Financial Aid - Do They Have a Role to Play?
•Customer Service: It is the People and the Process
•Customer Service in Financial Aid: Principles and Best Practices
•Ohio State Holds Annual Financial Aid Confrence for Academic Advisors
•Using Technology to Manage Customer Service

Diversity
•Access to Success: the 411 on Native American Students
•Building a Winning Financial Aid/TRIO/Gear-Up Team
•Collaborating, Communicating, Coordinating...Working Together to Maximize Federal Grants
•Developing and Implementing an Early Awareness Program on Your Campus
•Developing Minorities in Leadership
•Evaluating Race-Based Student Aid Programs
•Reaching Out to Foster Youth: The Unique Role of the Financial Aid Administrator
•Removing Barriers to Access for Students from Low-Income Backgrounds: A Framework for Success
•The DREAM Act--It's Possible
•The Perfect Demographic Storm: Extending the Benefits of Higher Education to the Next Wave of Students

Enrollment Management/Retention
•Advising Students about the Financial Effects of Delayed Graduation
•College Access Marketing Strategies
•Credit Reports for Enrollment Management
•Enrollment Management 101: What is This Thing Called Enrollment Management and Why Do I Need to Know About It?
•Enrollment Management Challenges - If the Demographics Have Changed, Are We Asking the Right Questions and Looking for Reasonable Answers?•Give Your Aid Families a Written, Four Year Financial Plan
•Integrating Financial Literacy on Campus - Getting Buy-In for a Win-Win
•Maintaining Access in Hard Fiscal Times
•Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Simulating Enrollment Management in Excel
•Partnering with the Academic Community: Mentoring, Learning Communities, and Financial Aid

Graduate/Professional Issues
•Graduate and Professional Financing of Education: How Students Pay Their College Costs and Debt Burdens After College
•HHS Update
•HHS Workshop - Application/Fiscal Report
•Open Forum for Graduate and Professional Aid Administrators
•Reauthorization Panel on Graduate and Professional Issues
•Regulatory Perils in Graduate/Professional Aid

Historical Perspectives
•History of Financial Aid
•How Has the Business of Financial Aid Changed

Leadership/Personal Development
•A Balancing Act - Managing Stress and Budgeting Time Among Competing Demands
•Educating the Private Sector and Corporations on the Value of Need-based Aid
•Ethics in Financial Aid
•Financial Aid Administrators: Uniquely Qualified to Supervise Enrollment Management Operations
•How to Respond to 'Hot Topics' within Campus Protocol
•Let the Leaders Emerge
•Personal ID Theft
•So You Want to be a Financial Aid Director!
•Teamwork: Moving Beyond Teambuilding Exercises

Processing
•An Auditor's Dream - A Highly Integrated Electronic Financial Aid System!
•Lessons Disaster Preparedness Learned from Hurricane Katrina
•Private Loans and Credit Scores: What Lenders Look At

•Put Everything at Your E-Fingertips: Practical Ideas for Creating a Comprehensive Electronic Student Financial Aid Record
•Putting Student Record Information At Parents' Fingertips
•Streamlined FFELP and Alternative Loan Processing
•Why Reinvent the Wheel? Technical and Social Tips, Tricks, and Hacks to Make Your Job Easier

Research
•Aid Data Roundup: Tools for Schools
•Barriers to College: The Role of Tuition, Financial Aid, Scholarship Preparation, and College Supply on College Enrollments
•Crisis Averted or Merely Postponed?: Examining Long-Term Cohort Default Rates
•Early Warning System: Targeting Campus Initiated Default Prevention Activities Based on Statistical Modeling
•From Dream to Implementation: Developing New Financial Aid Programs to Increase Access to College for Low-Income Students
•Guide to Completing Part H of the Common Data Set
•National Profile of Student Financial Aid Programs and Recipients
•Non-Researchers Using Research: How Aid Administrators Can Use Research in Their Everyday Jobs
•Recent Results from the NACUBO Tuition Discounting Survey
•Undergraduate Finances: Net Prices and Cumulative Borrowing
•Update of the NASFAA Staffing Model
•Using NCES Databases to Answer Your Financial Aid Questions

Technology
•Are You Synchronous? Using Real-Time Communications to Improve Customer Service and Staff Interaction
•Technology to Bridge the (Generation) Gap - Reaching Out to Your Students in New Ways
•Crank Out Those Numbers - An Easy-To-Use Operational Data Reporting Model for the Financial Aid Office
•Disaster Preparedness/Recovery
•Report on PESC Student Aid Workgroups
•Using a Digital Dashboard to Track Your Key Performance Indicators

Department of Education Sessions
•Academic Competitiveness Grant and National SMART Grant Programs Update
•Application and Delivery System Updates
••FFEL and Direct Program Update
•Loan Forgiveness, Cancellation, and Discharge
•NSLDS - How to Use the Data
•Return of Title IV Funds
•Satisfactory Academic Progress Standards
•Scheduled and Borrower-Based Academic Years
•Study Abroad
•Tools to Assist You in Processing Aid and Sustaining Compliance
•Working with Veterans Affairs to Help Students