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Assisting Students Through the IRS DRT Outage
IRS Data Retrieval Tool Nationwide, college financial aid offices and their students are being impacted by the current outage of the IRS Data Retrieval Tool. The ...
HEAG’s Spring 2017 Newsletter Is Here
HEAG's Spring 2017 Newsletter for financial aid professionals is here! This issue includes: HEAG's Consultants Share Their Favorite Commencement Memories HEAG ~ Growing to Serve You ...
April Is Financial Literacy Month: Community College Watch
Resources for Financial Aid Offices With recent reports highlighting the struggles community college students face to make ends meet, financial literacy is critical for our students, our ...
Community College Watch – Latest News
In case you missed it, here are some recent community college related articles that we have been reading: A list of the 2017 Awards of Excellence ...
Is your school providing great service? Part 2
In part one of this series, I talked about asking your customers, the students, for feedback on the level of service you were providing. In part ...
Is your school providing great service? Part 1
Ask the Students Instinctively, you may want to answer "yes" to that question. You are a college president, supervisor, or director that wants your students to ...
2017/2018 has begun!
Unfortunately, that isn’t a joke. October 1st has passed and 2017/2018 FAFSAs are already waiting in your SAIG mailbox! How could you possibly start your ...
What is Gainful Employment Debt-To-Earnings?
The week of October 17th, 2016, the National Student Loan Database (NSLDS) generated and sent a report to the Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) mailbox ...
Community College Watch – Autumn 2016 Edition
The recent announcement by the Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions to further review institutions with extremely low graduation rates puts many community colleges in the spotlight. ...
Upcoming Changes to 2017-18 Verification Process
The time has come and gone, with the new 2017-18 already launched on October 1st, 2016 and students completing a FAFSA that won’t go into effect ...