Report from Alabama (AASFAA)
Chip Quisenberry, President

The 2004-05 elected officers of the Alabama Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, Inc. are:

Mr. Charles Markle of Auburn University is the AASFAA Treasurer Elect and Charles also chairs the 2004-05 Budget Committee.

The Alabama Association is planning for the AASFAA Fall 2004 Conference at the historic Tutwiler Hotel in downtown Birmingham. The multi-track conference (with sessions for New Aid Officers, Mid-Level, and Advanced) will be held October 12-15, 2004. The Conference Program Committee (chaired by Dan Miller and Buddy Jackson) and the Local Arrangements Committee (chaired by Cindy Massey) have worked hard to make this a memorable and enjoyable conference.

Alabama aid administrators are encouraged to attend the upcoming SASFAA conference to be held next February 13-16 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta.

Ellen Canada is preparing to conduct NASFAA’s Fall Training session in Montgomery in late December. NASFAA's 2004 Fall Training on the student loan programs will answer frequently asked questions, provide the latest guidance received from the Department of Education, and clarify areas that often cause confusion.

Fall training topics will include:

• Borrower eligibility requirements
• Annual loan limits
  • Transfer students
  • Preparatory coursework
  • Teacher certification
  • Undergraduate/graduate joint degree
  • Health professions
  • Proration
• Aggregate loan limits
• Declining to certify loans
• Determination of loan periods
  • SAY and BBAY
  • Summer borrowing
• Frequency of borrowing
• Impact of change in enrollment on loan disbursements
• Eligibility for late and post-withdrawal loan disbursements
• Scheduling disbursements for mini-sessions & modules

The AASFAA Executive Boards for 2003-04 and 2004-05 held the annual transition meeting at the Legends in Prattville. Highlights of the meeting included adoption of a proposal from the Vendor-Sponsor Committee to revise many of the rates charged to vendors and sponsors for various conference and other sponsorships. The Budget Committee made a good start on formulating a budget for 2004-05. Dee Talley and Dr. Bill Wall led a great training session on the AASFAA Bylaws and Policies and Procedure Manual, and the Board agreed on recommendations from the Site Selection Committee for sites for the Fall 2005 (Huntsville) and Fall 2006 (Auburn) AASFAA conferences.

Chip Quisenberry
2004-05 AASFAA President