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Several topical themes are being offered for those who want to explore specific areas of interest.

Best Practices
  • A Clear and Present Danger to Institutional and Student Success
  • A Review of NASFAA's Statement of Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct
  • America Reads/America Counts at the University of Illinois:
  • A National Best Practice in FWS Tutoring Programs
  • Are You Media Saavy? Should You Be?
  • Creating a Financial Literacy Program for Students - Students Get Smart Financially
  • Creating a Training & Development Plan
  • Customer Service Extravaganza
  • Customer Service Initiatives Resulting from Self Assessments: A Panel Discussion
  • Help! I Can't Pay My Student Loans
  • Helping Students Help Themselves
  • Implementing A Financial Literacy Program on Your Campus: You Can Do It With a Little Help From Your Friends
  • Identity Theft and You
  • Killer Slides: Death By Bullet Points
  • Mastering Presentation Skills - (2 Parts)
  • Parents, It's Time to Talk About Money!
  • Student Aid and Student Service: A Win-Win Opportunity for Colleges and Students
  • Student Employment in the Financial Aid Office
  • Surviving Satisfactory Academic Progress and Utilizing It to Enhance Student's Academic Success
  • Unmasking Personal Prejudices/Biases in Professional Judgment

    • Compliance Issues

  • Attorney Workshop on Emerging Legal Developments in Title IV Administration
  • Business Taxes: 1065, 1120 and 1120S Plus Related Schedule (2 Parts)
  • Constructing Student Expense Budgets for Undergraduate Students
  • Consumer Information and Authorizations
  • Division III Financial Aid Reporting Process
  • FERPA
  • Legal Rights and Obligations During a Program Review
  • International Students - Assessing Parental Contributions
  • Personal Taxes: 1040 and Related Schedule (2 Parts)
  • State SSN Laws and the Effect on Financial Aid Office Procedures
  • Use LearnStudentAid to Keep Your Staff Up to Date on Regulations
  • Using NASFAA Tools to Ensure Title IV Compliance

    Federal Issues

  • ACG and SMART One Year Later: Was the Promise Fulfilled?
  • Direct Loan Issues in Reauthorization
  • Federal Methodology - Broken and/or too Political?
  • The Legislative Process - Deal or No Deal?
  • The Role of the Inspector General
  • The Safeguards Rule - What It Is and How Does It Affect My School - Gramm Leach Bliley
  • Visiting Your Congressman

    Graduate/Professional Issues

  • Beyond Basic Student Loan Counseling: Professional Students and Professional Spending Habits
  • Campus Based Programs HHS Update
  • Considerations for Your Upper Administration and Potential Campus Agreements
  • Constructing Student Expense Budgets for Graduate Students
  • Direct to Consumer Marketing and Educating Your Students
  • Due Diligence for Campus Based Health and Human Services Loan Programs
  • Graduate/Professional Roundtable Discussions
  • Health Professions Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) Update
  • Regulatory Perils in Graduate/Professional Aid
  • The Changing Face of Federal Loan Consolidation

    Institutional Program Management

  • Developing Policies and Procedures
  • Ethics in the Financial Aid Profession
  • Financial Aid: A Profession Not Just a Job
  • Getting the Message to the Top
  • What Financial Aid Administrators Should Know in the Face of Disaster
  • Why Can't We Be Friends: Being Administratively Capable Without Making Enemies on Campus

    Leadership Development

  • A Year in the Life of a Financial Aid Director
  • Being the Communication Guru on Your Campus
  • Enrollment Management and Financial Aid: Are You Part of the Team?
  • How Can Your Office Operate When Your Winter Gloves Are Older Than Most of Your Staff Members
  • How to Become a Vice President for Enrollment Management
  • Personnel Issues in the Workplace "I Am Not Your Mom, I'm Your Boss"
  • Pinstripes or "Pink Slips"
  • So You Are A New Director, Now What?

    Research

  • Alternative Loans: A Discussion of NASFAA's (Research Committee's) Recent Survey on the Use of Private Loans
  • Educational Cost, Debt, Value and Career Expectation
  • Racial/Ethnic Difference on Federal Student Aid Knowledge and Its Effect on Adult Educational Attainment
  • Research Tools for Analyzing Financial Aid Data
  • Rethinking Student Aid: How Effective are Current Student Aid Policies and Programs?
  • Tuition Discounting: Not Just a Private College Practice
  • Using the NCES NPSAS Database to Answer Your Financial Aid Questions
  • Using IPEDS Data Analysis Tools

    Student Access and Diversity

  • College Access Marketing Campaigns are Working!
  • Foster Youth Success Initiative: The Financial Aid Office Outreach and Retention Project
  • Gates Millenium Scholars - An Overview for Financial Aid Administrators
  • Hispanics: Outreach and Paying for College
  • Improving College Access for Students from Low-Income Backgrounds - Moving from Policy to Practice
  • Next Steps in Improving College Access and Performance
  • On the Cutting Edge of College Access: The All New CollegeAccessMarketing.org
  • Shaking the Money Tree: Strategies for Developing Funding for Need-based College Access Programs
  • Strategies for Success: Developing a Campus-wide Retention Plan
  • The Changing Face of American Higher Education: Creating New Opportunities for Access and Success
  • What About Me: Reaching Underserved Populations

    Technology

  • Conversion Survivor
  • Digital Dashboard Redux
  • Making Self Service Great Service
  • Re-Designing Your Financial Aid Office Website
  • Technology Across Generations: Is e-mail Obsolete? Engaging the "Digital Native" Student
  • Technology Done Right (Or Wrong?) - Lessons Learned from SOE Reviews

    Specific sessions related to Department of Education Title IV Programs include the following:

  • ACG and National SMART Grants: The Basics
  • Academic Year Progression in the ACG and National SMART Grant Programs
  • Confirming Eligble Non Citizen Status When Automated Secondary Confirmation Fails
  • EFC Formula and HERA Changes
  • Exercising Professional Judgment with Confidence
  • FFEL/DL Update
  • NPRM: It's Your Last Chance to Affect ED Policy
  • R2T4: Implementing the Adjustments Required by HERA
  • Using NASFAA Toools to Ensure Title IV Compliance
  • Where's the Conflict?

    For a listing of times and dates for these and other sessions, refer to the schedule.
    All sessions are subject to change.

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