By Suzanne Angheloni, Student Connections, USA Funds As financial aid professionals, we know reaching out to borrowers in various stages of repayment is an important part of reducing or maintaining your institution’s cohort default rate. Here are some tips to improve your borrower outreach: Create a strategy...
By Suzanne Angheloni, Student Connections, USA Funds Entrance counseling is an important area that is sometimes overlooked. Here are some questions to consider as you are thinking of ways to enhance your school’s entrance counseling. Do you have the resources to do one-on-one, in-person counseling? This...
by Brenda McCafferty, Sr. Financial Literacy Trainer, ECMC Recently on NBC Nightly News, James B. Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was interviewed about what he does to protect his privacy online. To my amazement, his response included a piece of tape across his...
We’re in a “New York state of mind!” at the 2016 Winter Conference! Get ready for a New venue, New agenda, and New faces. Not only will we have federal updates from Washington, D.C. and NASFAA training sessions, we will also be taking you to...
By Ivette Rivera-Dreyer, Director of Financial Aid, Manchester Community College In 2007, Connecticut became a member of a national initiative called College Goal Sunday (CGS). The purpose of this yearly event is to offer students and their parents’ one-on-one, expert advice on how to complete the...
by Cecelia Dwyer, College Ave It's back to school time, and parents everywhere are trying to figure out how to best prepare their kids as they go off to college. Starting your kids on the right track can help them make good choices about spending, saving,...