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7 Tips for Providing High Impact Financial Aid and Financial Wellness Outreach Programming
One of the key roles financial aid professionals play is to ensure students and their parents understand their options for federal, state and institutional aid. To ...
Financial Aid Automation: The Future of Education Funding
Introduction Financial aid is the unsung hero in many students' educational journeys, opening doors that might otherwise remain shut. But let's face it, who enjoys sifting ...
Is Your Institution Ready for the FAFSA® Delay?
We’ve been discussing the changes coming for the 2024 – 2025 award year — from the FAFSA questions to needs analysis — for several months now. ...
How Data Science Can Transform Financial Aid and Enrollment?
The modern education system is radically transforming, primarily driven by data science. Historically, paperwork, inefficiencies, and opaque systems have overwhelmed financial aid and enrollment processes. Integrating ...
Building a Financial Aid Award Model: A Python Guide
Introduction Financial aid is a critical component of modern education that enables students from various backgrounds to pursue higher studies. However, the process of awarding financial ...
Empowering Financial Aid Administrators – A Comprehensive Guide to Training and Compliance Resources
Resources Word In Wooden Cube Financial aid administrators are the unsung heroes of the academic world, playing a crucial role in helping students navigate the complex ...
The Lost Art of Communication
Remember the days before smart phones, text messaging and IM? If you don’t, we’ll give you an idea of what it was like. When you went ...
Move Over EFC, Here comes SAI (in 2024/2025)
Change is hard and we’ve endured a lot of change over the last few years! Get ready for another biggie coming in the 2024/2025 award year. ...
FAFSA® Simplification: Protecting FTI — Institutional Responsibility
In our June blog, we discussed how the process of obtaining federal income tax information will be changing for the 2024-2025 award year. In summary, the ...
Student Loan Repayment Assistance Programs – Another Tool to Assist with Repayment Counseling
The recent Supreme Court decision blocking the Biden Administration’s Student Loan Forgiveness plan has forced many financial aid advisors to pivot their messaging in assisting students ...

