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Cash Management Procedures: Are Your Bases Covered?
You may not have even started processing for the upcoming academic year, so managing the actual disbursements may seem as far away as the World Series. ...
Verification 2023-2024 – A Return to Normal
In our March blog, we wrote about the many areas in financial aid that will be impacted by the end of the COVID-19 National Emergency. One ...
Sharing Lessons Learned from Financial Wellness Initiatives
As college tuition continues to rise, many students struggle to balance their academic responsibilities with their financial obligations. This can lead to a variety of issues ...
Do You Know Your Third Party Servicers?
Federal Student Aid’s (FSA) February 15 Dear Colleague Letter created a bit of a stir in the higher education community and while the update on February ...
Surviving and Thriving During Financial Aid’s ‘Cruelest Month’
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain -T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland” ...
Is Your Campus Ready for Secret Shoppers?
Federal Student Aid (FSA) has a number of tools available to assess the compliance of institutions participating in the federal aid programs — and they’ve just ...
The COVID-19 National Emergency is Ending, Are You Ready?
On January 31, President Biden announced the national emergency declarations related to the COVID-19 pandemic will be ending on May 11, 2023, and that means the ...
It’s Always a Good Time to Think About Cybersecurity
To celebrate Data Privacy Week in January, the Federal Student Aid Training Center created a collection of training resources for financial aid administrators. And while this ...
Cohort Default Rate: Q&A
This is the time of year we typically talk about draft Cohort Default Rate (CDR) and managing your institutions CDR throughout the year. In light of ...
It’s a Good Time to Rethink Your Exit Counseling Program
This year’s graduating class is the first since 2019 to know exactly when student loan repayment will start. It’s been confirmed that the current repayment pause ...