12 May REGISTER NOW!
Registration is now open for CAPFAA's Annual Business Meeting! Click here for online registration. Date: Thursday June 8th Time: 9:00 am to 2:30pm Location: The Glastonbury Boathouse...
24 Apr 5 Tips to Get Students to Read SAP Emails
By: Dan Dreves, Director of School Partnerships, FATV Are you concerned that your students are not reading their SAP emails? With just a little effort, you may be able to increase how many students read and comprehend this content. Here are some suggestions to enhance your communications...
24 Apr What Are You Doing to Help Your Transfer Students Succeed?
By Lynda McNair, Student Connections If school, state and national goals related to college completion are to be met, higher education needs to do a better job with helping transfer students succeed. Like their full-time, first-time counterparts, transfer students report a high commitment to attending college...
24 Apr The Return on Investment of Student Success
By: Lynda McNair, Student Connections In an effort to help students and families assess the return on investment (ROI) of higher education, the U.S. Department of Education provides various measures it considers indicative of student success on the College Scorecard website. These measures include: Graduation rate -...
24 Apr GET READY FOR THE 2017 CAPFAA CONFERENCE!
2017 CAPFAA Conference planning is underway. The first Conference Committee meeting will be held in May, so if you are interested in joining our team, be sure to reach out to Elizabeth Schumacher at eschumacher@usj.edu. The Ethan Allen Hotel in Danbury is SO excited to...
24 Apr Majoring in Money: How Financially Savvy Are Your Students?
By: Marie O'Malley, Senior Director, Consumer Research at Sallie Mae You might be surprised at the findings of Sallie Mae’s 2016 national study, Majoring in Money: How American College Students Manage Their Finances, published together with Ipsos. While the popular belief is that young people have a...
25 Jan Money, Money, Money
By Brenda McCafferty, Senior Financial Literacy Trainer, ECMC How sweet these words sound in your ear…well, except for in January. The sound is more like, bills, bills bills. How painful can it be? It seems no matter how hard you try not to over spend during the holidays,...
25 Jan UPCOMING EVENT: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Open to ALL CAPFAA Members
ALL CAPFAA MEMBERS ARE INVITED to the next Executive Council meeting at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford on Friday, February 10, 12:30 PM. CAPFAA dues don’t only cover organizational bills, but other CAPFAA services, especially training. Is this training adequate, is it meeting...
25 Jan A Wish List of Legislative Priorities for Higher Education Consumers
By Julie Ryder Lammers, Managing Director of Consumer Advocacy and Government Relations, American Student Assistance This month’s changing of the guard in Washington, DC sets the stage for lawmakers to tackle a number of higher education financing issues, whether through the stalled reauthorization of the Higher...
18 Jan UPCOMING EVENT: Graduate & Professional Symposium
Please join us for the 2017 Graduate & Professional Symposium. Some of the topics to be covered at this years event include: Counseling High Debt Students, Details and Considerations on Loan Refinancing with Industry Panel, Working with Students on Debt Relief and Avoiding Fraud, Federal Update...