Webinars

Schools are held responsible for their cohort default rates (CDR), yet they have very limited authority to impose restrictions on borrowing and are prohibited from requiring additional loan counseling. What can schools do to positively influence this measure of administrative capability? Join this webinar to review the factors that affect the CDR calculation and hear from a panel of financial aid administrators about their solutions for reducing CDRs and helping their borrowers navigate federal loan repayment successfully.

Join NASFAA's Joe Massman, Regulatory Specialist, to review key SAP changes you may have missed and to cover frequently asked questions from our previous R2T4 webinar. Please note that because of the topics being covered, this session will primarily focus on term-based credit-hour institutions, particularly those with modules.

What information will your students need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) for the upcoming school year? Will there be changes for the 2022-23 application and processing cycle? Join NASFAA’s Lissa Powell and Jackie Cottom to review key aspects of the application process, discuss updates to the FAFSA application, and consider answers to questions frequently asked by applicants. We will also take a brief look at the tables used to calculate the expected family contribution (EFC) of applicants.

This webinar provides an overview of 2022-23 verification requirements and highlights any new or changed data element and documentation requirements. It will focus on some complicated cases and verification-related conflicting information issues that come up year after year.

Did you know that your learned stereotypes automatically form unconscious bias? Of course, most of the time there are no intentional outcomes. While assisting students in achieving their education goals, financial aid administrators navigate through a sea of federal and state laws, regulations, and regulatory guidance, and we do so as fairly and equitably as we can. Kochie Vaughan and a distinguished panel of your colleagues will discuss the importance of initiating and advancing the conversation of unconscious bias on your campus. The panel will discuss the mission of recognizing and eliminating bias in financial aid policies and procedures.

Sandy Baum and Justin Draeger will discuss some of the most pressing enrollment and financing issues facing institutions today. Topics may include tuition discounting, the structure of need analysis, and college access and affordability. They will address the issue of student debt and analyze some of the policy proposals currently getting attention through an economic lens.

The NASFAA Policy Update will include the latest updates on what's happening in Washington related to student aid policy. The Policy Team will provide updates on Higher Education reauthorization, student aid funding, regulatory action, and close with a question and answer session. 

Approximately one in 10 American young adults ages 18 to 25, and at least one in 30 adolescent minors ages 13 to 17, are estimated to endure homelessness on their own over the course of a year. Youth who experience homelessness face unique barriers to accessing and completing higher education, including barriers to financial aid. Yet higher education is their best opportunity for economic independence and healthier lives.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, societal changes and advancements in technology were already affecting how, when, and where people work together. Will the skills we value now be the same skills needed in the future? How will financial aid office managers address gaps between their needs and the skills of current and prospective employees? Join this webinar to hear from a panel of financial aid administrators how they are preparing themselves and their team members for what’s ahead.

It’s back! NASFAA Quiz Show webinar season 2! If the Game Show Network is one of your favorite cable TV networks…then you are going to love our NASFAA Quiz Show webinar! Where we bring to life some of those very thought-provoking and sometimes mind blowing AskRegs questions in a manner that is considered edutainment. The goal is to provide a good mix of questions so even our financial aid neophytes can participate in the fun as well. So, join NASFAA’s Kochie Vaughan and David Tolman in this engaging webinar as they test your knowledge on a variety of financial aid topics. Have fun learning and see which staff members in your office are NASFAA Quiz Show Champions!

In its commitment to the graduate and professional community, NASFAA is providing this town hall webinar as a forum for graduate and professional aid administrators to discuss current issues of concern for graduate and professional students and aid administrators.

Join David Futrell, NASFAA Knowledgebase and AskRegs Manager, as he leads you through a discussion of some of the more frequently assigned comment codes, flags, and reject codes, such as those related to citizenship issues, incorrect name and name changes, Selective Service, unusual enrollment history, parent Social Security Numbers, parental refusal to complete the FAFSA, marital status codes, IRS Data Field Flags, Professional Judgment Flag, Asset Threshold Flag, the Auto Zero EFC Flag, and default status and NSLDS Loan Status Codes

Join NASFAA's Tiffany Gibbs and Jackie Cottom as they provide an overview of some of the basic concepts related to awarding and disbursing Title IV aid for summer. Topics discussed will include important issues to consider first when awarding summer aid, selecting summer program formats, selecting the award year EFC, prorating summer EFCs, calculating summer COAs, and determining enrollment status.

Join Joe Massman, NASFAA Regulatory Specialist, as he addresses a timely hot topic resulting from recent regulatory changes and/or identified by the financial aid community.

The NASFAA Policy Update will include the latest updates on what's happening in Washington related to student aid policy. The Policy Team will provide updates on Higher Education reauthorization, student aid funding, regulatory action, and close with a question and answer session. 

Join David Futrell, NASFAA’s Knowledgebase and AskRegs Manager, as he addresses a timely hot topic resulting from recent regulatory changes and/or identified by the financial aid community.

The CARES Act and Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund were quickly established in 2020 to provide students with support in a time of national crisis. To understand the success and challenges of this program, NASFAA, NASPA, and MDRC partnered to conduct surveys and focus groups with college and university administrators and students. Join us to learn about the experiences and perspectives of these administrators and students, and to learn how this can inform future emergency aid policies, programs, and practices.

Join NASFAA staff as they cover reasons for written agreements, requirements, period of enrollment covered by agreement, cost of attendance consideration, cash management, and satisfactory academic progress.

Join ASR Analytics and College of the Canyons for a live webinar on how their Student Centered Funding Dashboards (SCFD) can help your office focus funds to increase diversity and equity, and identify students needing additional financial resources.

You want to help students along their journey. They want the personalization and support they get from Amazon. With Salesforce for Higher Ed, you can have both. Join Bellevue University’s Scott Bierman, assistant vice president of student affairs, and Heidi Lupo, director of academic advising, to learn how they’re doing it.

Join NASFAA's Joe Massman for this Q&A-style webinar that will test your knowledge on topics related to student eligibility.

Immigration policy is constantly changing, especially with the recent election. DACA and undocumented students remain in limbo, with few options for financial aid and no long-term immigration solutions passed by Congress. We will discuss how to advise DACA and undocumented students in the current climate and share best practices and resources during this webinar. 

NASFAA Policy Update webinars provide an opportunity for the NASFAA membership to ask policy and regulatory questions. NASFAA staff will be on hand to answer questions and offer explanations.

Join NASFAA President Justin Draeger and NASFAA staff from the AskRegs and Policy teams as they review and follow up on the most recently passed COVID-19 legislation and guidance from the Department of Education, and answer some of the most common questions related to Title IV and COVID-19. Time will be provided for open Q&A during this 90-minute webinar.

This webinar will discuss what we might expect, the possible impact both short- and long-term for institutions and borrowers, and how institutions can prepare for and mitigate the residual effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Effective July 1, 2021, the September 2, 2020 Final Rules make substantial changes to the return of Title IV funds (R2T4) requirements for programs offered in modules. Join Amanda Sharp, NASFAA's Online Training & Instruction Manager, and David Futrell, NASFAA's AskRegs Manager, for a detailed discussion of the new rules.

Do you have questions about what it takes to maintain the FAAC® designation after you have earned it? Join us to hear directly from current FAACs about their personal experience with NASFAA’s Certified Financial Aid Administrator Program.

Well thought-out and compliant cyber security and data privacy policies and practices have become increasingly critical to campus operations. This panel of aid administrators will share their best practices around this topic.

Join Kochie Vaughan from NASFAA in this engaging webinar as she tests your knowledge on a variety of financial aid topics. Have fun learning and see which staff members in your office should win the NASFAA Quiz Show Championship!

Using screenshare, Tiffany Gibbs, NASFAA's Compliance Products Manager, will provide a guided tour through each module and provide ideas about how you school can best use these tools on your campus.

Policies & Procedures (P&Ps) are challenging to tackle! What do I write? Who needs to be involved? When will I find time? How can I organize it all? But P&Ps are critical for remaining administratively capable with the Department of Education. To help you stop hiding from your P&Ps, Blue Icon Advisors, NASFAA Consulting, will share some of the lessons learned through the P&P projects we tackled for schools this year.

Criminals and bad actors are targeting coronavirus response funds, seizing on every opportunity they can in this time of crisis to steal or intentionally misuse this money, including preying on students; schools; and Federal, State, and local government agencies. The Office of Inspector General (OIG), through its Special Investigations Unit, is working to identify, prevent, and stop the criminals and bad actors who seek to steal or misuse these funds. The OIG Special Investigations Unit is composed of professional criminal investigators with decades of experience in conducting education-related investigations and stopping education-focused fraud schemes involving Federal education programs. Many of those investigations started with a call to the OIG by a person who suspected fraud. That is how we were able to stop it. That is why we need your help to identify potential coronavirus fraud and report it to the OIG.

In its commitment to the graduate and professional community, NASFAA is providing this town hall webinar as a forum for graduate and professional aid administrators to discuss current issues of concern for graduate and professional students and aid administrators.

We hear much about devoting proper attention to our physical health during times of stress; what about attending to our mental health during especially busy times? Dr. Philip Hawkins will discuss how life got suddenly interrupted by a major depression from too many competing life demands and how he has transformed through lessons of recovery that guide him on a new and improved life journey.

A global pandemic, social unrest, political divide and uncertainty, an extreme economic recession and… oh yes, we need to grow enrollment even larger than planned to make up for financial shortfalls. Learn, share and collaborate with colleagues from the 2021 NASFAA Leadership Symposium on how to move forward during a time like none other.

This session from the 2021 NASFAA Leadership Symposium will address major federal nondiscrimination laws that govern college admission and the awarding of financial aid and scholarships when factors like race, ethnicity, and gender are considered. 

This session from the 2021 NASFAA Leadership Symposium will discuss how leaders in financial aid offices throughout the nation have faced unexpected, once-in-a-lifetime challenges in regard to compliance over the past year.

Join NASFAA President Justin Draeger and NASFAA staff from the AskRegs and Policy teams as they review COVID-19-related topics, legislation, and guidance from the Department of Education, and answer some of the most common questions related to Title IV and COVID-19. Time will be provided for open Q&A during this 90-minute webinar.

This session from the 2021 NASFAA Leadership Symposium will take us back to March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, when most of our professional lives were upended and we, as leaders, had to shift our thinking, planning, and processing.

Join David Futrell, NASFAA Knowledgebase and AskRegs Manager, as he provides clarification on some of the most commonly misunderstood verification issues in this extended 120 minute webinar. This webinar is a follow-up to the earlier webinar, 2021-22 Verification Basics.

Looking to increase enrollment? Consider corporate partnerships. Corporate partnerships provide educational benefits that help recruit and retain employees. For students, they provide greater access through discounted tuition and books. And for higher ed institutions, they open the door to a new recruitment model, increased enrollment, and enhanced academic programs.

This webinar will be about how corporate partnerships work and wow your institution can get started with your own corporate partnerships. 

Join NASFAA President Justin Draeger and NASFAA staff from the AskRegs and policy teams as they review the student aid provisions included in Congress' massive year-end spending and COVID-19 relief packages. The team will review the new COVID-19 relief provisions and follow-up on prior COVID topics, legislation, and guidance. They will also dive-in on the other student aid provisions, including FAFSA simplification and spending for fiscal year 2021, included in the legislation. Time will be provided for open Q&A during this 90 minute webinar.

Few understand the nuances, art, and science of financial aid quite like those in the aid office. But sometimes when we know a subject too well, that knowledge can stand in the way of effectively explaining it to others on campus, most especially institutional presidents. Join NASFAA President Justin Draeger, Northern Virginia Community College President Dr. Anne Kress, and Portland State University Vice President for Enrollment Management Dr. Chuck Knepfle as they discuss how aid administrators can more effectively 'communicate up' about the needs of the financial aid office and the students they serve.

NASFAA Policy Update webinars provide an opportunity for the NASFAA membership to ask policy and regulatory questions. NASFAA staff were on hand to answer questions and offer explanations.

It’s everywhere. Higher education institutions have unprecedented challenges to consider. What does “going to college” mean? How will revenue change? What will enrollment look like and what are we going to do about it? Where can costs be reduced and gains still made?

This webinar will focus on the role verification services plays with reducing melt, staffing challenges, expense management and verification lift.

Sandy Baum will lead a presentation on some of the most pressing enrollment and financing issues facing institutions today.

Join NASFAA's Lissa Powell and David Tolman, along with a panel of colleagues from schools offering clock-hour programs as we discuss the timeliest guidance to help ensure no alarms go off during your next audit or review.

The current global crisis caused major shifts in higher education operations, drastically disrupting students’ experiences.  Join us to learn about taking a holistic approach to support including strategies for virtual support, continuity planning, retention outreach, inbound engagement, community building, and more to support your students.

Successful consulting does not always need to occur face-to-face. Blue Icon Advisors, NASFAA Consulting, and the Standards of Excellence review program offer remote compliance and consulting services to schools as a lower-cost (but not lower-quality) alternative to being on campus. Attend this webinar to learn about remote services and how they can help you achieve your goals.

Join Susan Shogren and a panel of influencers in today’s financial aid community to explore how they leveraged a wide range of learning opportunities over the course of their careers. Discover how growing your expertise and enhancing your professional competencies can help you continue to be of maximum value to your institution and your students.

Financial concerns have been a longtime leading factor in students’ decisions to enroll or continue their education. In today’s challenging economic environment, monetary considerations are even more prevalent. As a result, higher education institutions need to prioritize awarding timely and accurate financial aid offers to incoming and returning students to drive enrollment decisions and student persistence rates.

Join NASFAA’s Tiffany Gibbs and Susan Shogren as they review key aspects of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) application process, discuss answers to questions frequently asked by applicants, and explore strategies institutions can use to help prepare staff and students for the upcoming application season.

As academic departments continue to explore new ways to deliver academic programs, it is essential to understand how those decisions can affect the Title IV programs you offer and impact your students. Join NASFAA’s Joe Massman to explore basic concepts that will help inform your conversations and choices about program structure.

Join NASFAA President Justin Draeger and NASFAA staff from the AskRegs and Policy teams as they review and follow-up COVID-19-related topics, legislation, and guidance from the Department of Education, and answer some of the most common questions related to Title IV and COVID-19. Time was provided for open Q&A during this 60 minute webinar.

Join NASFAA’s Tiffany Gibbs, Compliance Products Manager, and Kochie Vaughan, Regulatory Specialist, as they discuss the basic elements of verification and what is required.

During this webinar, we will compare the latest data on both student debt and general consumer credit behavior prior to the crisis, on national and state levels. 

Mental health is the number one issue on college campuses today, but it is not just the student body facing these mental health obstacles - it is the staff, as well. NASFAA members are not just in a high-stress profession but may also lack emotional support or have additional external stress, thus fostering an environment for lack of mental and emotional wellness. Please join us for this webinar.