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Meet Joe Donlay. Joe has been working in the financial aid profession for 15 years, starting his career as a financial aid counselor at Southwestern College in Winfield, KS. "With a newly-minted marketing degree and some wonderful experiences as a student ambassador, I was initially more interested in pursuing a higher education career via college admissions," Joe said. "Not knowing anything about financial aid, my application made its way to Brenda Hicks at Southwestern, now the NASFAA National Chair-Elect. She took a chance on me as a new college graduate, and gave me my first break into the field of student aid."

How did the changes to our federal tax returns affect the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for 2020-21 — or did the changes affect the FAFSA at all? What about the FAFSA mobile app that was introduced last year? Join NASFAA's Tiffany Gibbs and Lissa Powell tomorrow, Oct. 2, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. ET for a look at the 2020-21 FAFSA, as they discuss changes to FAFSA questions, updates to the FAFSA mobile app, and changes to the tables used to calculate the expected family contribution (EFC) of students. Register now.

The purpose of the Rapid Response Network is to become familiar with NASFAA’s policy positions, as adopted by the Board of Directors; provide timely, relevant feedback and examples to inquiries related to proposed legislation, regulation and/or related initiatives; assist NASFAA policy staff in aggregating and analyzing feedback, including identification of common themes and/or trends among responses; and based on feedback, engage in discussion with NASFAA policy staff to help inform potential recommendations and official policy positions. Review the task force charter for more details and, if interested, complete the volunteer form by 5:00 p.m. today.

The Department of Education is pleased to announce the posting of EDExpress for Windows 2020-2021, Release 1.0, on the Federal Student Aid Download (FSAdownload) website, located at https://fsadownload.ed.gov. This release contains Global, Application Processing, and Packaging functionality for the 2020-2021 cycle.

The Department of Education is especially interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (5) how might the Department minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents, including through the use of information technology.

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