Financial Aid

The role of the Financial Aid Officer is to ensure that the students are properly funded, packaged, and prepared to start each semester.

Schools can learn more about their three-year student loan cohort default rates by: understanding the default rate calculation, anticipating default rate implications, assembling the right team of stakeholders to address default rates, examining and understanding borrower characteristics and creating and implementing the best plan of action.

As we come to the close of the year, and of budgets for many, University Business’ Winter 2012 Models of Efficiency honorees offer up excellent examples of ways in which colleges and universities can save money and reduce their bottom line. From automation to consolidation to going digital, these nine winners provide a series of successful ideas that can help with evaluating, planning, and squeezing more out of next year’s budgets.

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency is advising all state grant applicants who have suffered severe casualty losses as a result of Hurricane Sandy - regardless of their prior eligibility determination - to complete and submit a Casualty Loss Form for possible reconsideration of their state grant award eligibility.

Montana State University was recently awarded a grant of nearly $80,000 from the Montana Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education to institute a financial literacy program.

Sylvie T. Hangen has been appointed the first director of financial aid of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University (Conn).

2013 Annual Conference
Ritz Carlton
Pentagon City
Arlington, Virginia
January 27–30, 2013