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FAFSA® Resources: Essential Tools for Processing During Spring 2024
Resources Word In Wooden Cube In this blog post, we provide an overview of the changes financial aid offices face while processing financial aid for the ...
Up-Skill Your Student Employees
There have been multiple articles written about the professional deficiencies of recent college graduates entering the workforce. It seems likely that years of online school and ...
Is Your Institution Ready for the Next Application Cycle?
Just when you thought you had a game plan to address each of the complex issues related to the ISIR delay, another electronic announcement rolls out. ...
5 Tips for Expanding Access to Financial Literacy
April is not just a month of blooming flowers and warming weather; it's also Financial Literacy Month—a time dedicated to promoting awareness and education about financial ...
Can You Recognize a Financial Aid Scam?
You receive a phone call, and don’t recognize the number. Should you answer, or is it another relentless spam call; those annoying phone calls that claim ...
2024-2025 Pell Grant Eligibility: A Three-Step Process
In all the hubbub around FAFSA® Simplification, we haven’t really had time to talk much about the new methodology for awarding Pell Grants. Throw your Pell ...
Karen Van Dyne Joins HEAG as Director of Business Affairs
Wellesley, Mass., March 18, 2024 – The Higher Education Assistance Group (HEAG), a leading higher education and financial aid consulting firm, announced that Karen Van Dyne has ...
Mindfulness Strategies for Financial Aid Staff – Proactively Combating Fatigue and Burnout During Difficult Times
Working in financial aid can be incredibly rewarding, but it also comes with its unique set of challenges, including the stress of shifting goals and changing ...
7 Ways to Motivate Your Team to Overcome Adversity: Life After FAFSA® Simplification
They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb — a reference to the weather, of course. For financial aid professionals ...
Exit Counseling: Can We Do it Better?
This time of year always makes us think about student loan exit counseling programs. Are they effective and, if not, how do we make them so? ...