CONFERENCE AGENDA

Click here to see the tentative agenda. The following list is a sample of some of the concurrent sessions you can expect to see at the conference.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS: (Sunday)

1. New Aid Officer’s Workshop
2. A Legislative Symposium – Communicating with and Influencing Legislative Staff
3. Financial Management Issues for Treasurers of State Associations

GENERAL SESSIONS:

1. Washington Update
2. NASFAA Update
3. Federal Update

NEW AID: (concurrent sessions)

1. Basic Verification
2. Financial Aid from A- Z
3. Financial Aid Toolbox
4. The role of student-loan guarantors

DOE: (concurrent sessions)

1. ACG/SMART
2. Ask a Fed General
3. Ask a Fed Proprietary/Clock Hours
4. Program Eligibility/ECAR
5. R2T4
6. Resolving Data Matches

FINANCIAL AID PRACTICES: (concurrent sessions)

1. Advanced Verification
2. Comparing Private Loans
3. Direct to Consumer Marketing
4. Ethics in the FA Profession
5. Evaluating Your Institution’s Discount Rate
6. FISAP
7. Get Into The Game! Understanding Loan Repayment Strategies
8. Grad PLUS versus Private Loans
9. How to Respond to NPRMs
10. IRS Tax filing requirements
11. It’s A New Game: Loan Portfolios (Understanding the Student Loan Portfolio)
12. Life after negotiated rule making, choosing a lender
13. Loan Consolidation
14. PJ Focus Group:  Should ‘ya, Could ‘ya, Would ‘ya?
15. PJ for Graduate and Professional Students
16. Providing Services at Branch Campuses and Staying in Compliance (Location, Location, Location)
17. SAP and Utilizing It to Enhance Students’ Academic Success
18. Veteran Benefits
19. Who Has Time to Write This? (Policies and Procedures)
20. Workstudy

TECHNOLOGY: (concurrent sessions)

1. Improving Self Service – New Technologies
2. The Paperless Financial Aid Office - Imaging

INDUSTRY ISSUES AND TREND: (concurrent sessions)

1. Debt Management/Default Prevention
2. Demographic Trends
3. Demystifying Borrower Benefits
4. Dollars and Sense - Financial Literacy Programs at Schools
5. Emerging Legal Developments in Title IV Administration
6. Financial Aid and The Business Office
7. Financial Aid and The Registrar’s Office
8. Financial Literacy in General
9. Graduate School Borrowing (and the Impact on Credit)
10. Hill Visits
11. Hot Topics for Graduate/Professional FAA's
12. How to Protect Ourselves, Our Staff, and Our Students
13. The Changing Loan Industry
14. The Changing Loan Industry
15. Writing a RFP and RFI and Developing Lender Lists

PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: (concurrent sessions)

1. Customer Service Roundtable
2. Effective Conference Networking
3. Everyday Leadership
4. For the Love of It
5. Investing… It Isn’t Rocket Science
6. Managing Stress
7. Meetings….Necessary Evil or Opportunity to Shine
8. Personnel Issues For Senior Management
9. Public Speaking
10. Retirement…It’s YOUR Future
11. Your Credit Life Story (understanding credit scores)