By Joe Jovell, Senior Marketing Associate, Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc. While no sanctions or benefits are associated with the draft cohort default rates (CDRs) you receive from the U.S. Department of Education (ED), there could be serious ramifications for your school if you...
By Linda Peckham, Senior Training Strategist, Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation With the proliferation of headlines on the fiscal cliff, aid cuts, and sequestration in the news, aid leaders are often asked to predict how funding cuts will impact the campus community. The request for...
Inside Higher Ed reported on March 4th…. A few hours before President Obama signed an order officially instating across-the-board spending cuts Friday night, the U.S. Education Department issued guidance on what the automatic budget cuts would mean for federal financial aid programs. The Pell Grant is...
by Jacquie Carroll, ED.D., Campus Engagement and Education Consultant, American Student Assistance® (ASA) Recent legislation under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 has brought about changes to the Pell Grant program. These changes aren’t only worrying students and college administrators alike, but they’re already impacting students....
Dear CAPFAA, There is no doubt that this academic year will go down as having some of the most memorable moments in history: the first debt ceiling debates, Hurricane Sandy, the Fiscal Cliff, the 2013 Blizzard, shopping sheets, scorecards, and now day four of Sequestration. ...
Many thanks to our intrepid photographer and dedicated CAPFAA member Neville Brown for this submission (click below) CAPFAA SCENES FROM THE PAST – FLASHBACK 2011 Enjoy the memories! ...
Questions about specific aid programs, regulations, and procedures? Student aid administrators can go to http://www.ifap.ed.gov/ifap/ for links to aid-related Federal Registers, the Federal Student Aid Handbook, Dear Colleague letters, etc. Even with all this information, we sometimes we are still left with questions about how...
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Dear CAPFAA Members: It is hard coming to grip with the fact that summer is almost over, and that very soon the air will become more brisk, the leaves on the trees will be changing colors and we will all be immersed in open houses, tailgating,...
by Linda Peckham, Senior Training Strategist, Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates Higher education at large has responded to the social media boon by strategically utilizing Facebook and other platforms to improve admissions, yield, community relations and even alumni giving. Why then, has the financial...