If you were unable to attend NASFAA's Spring 2003 Training series, you can now order
the reference material distributed at the sessions. A limited supply of the
materials is available. For each of the module ordered, you will receive a Participant's
Handout containing information that identifies and explains the module topic.
The Participant's Handout also includes mini-slides, charts, and other useful
job aids. (Please note that the materials on Consortium Agreements Among Eligible
Institutions and Federal Work-Sudy are now out-of-date and no longer being sold.)
The one module of the 2003 Spring Training series still available for purchase
is:
- Debt Management: Strategies, Options, and Implications
Debt Management: Strategies, Options, and Implications
Topics Covered
- Incorporating personal finance issues into financial aid counseling
- Useful on-line resources regarding consumer debt
- Basic information on credit scoring and credit reports
- Evaluating different alternative loans
- Ways to meet unmet need without resorting to private loans
- The loan consolidation process and the advantages and disadvantages of consolidation
- Innovative loan counseling concepts
What You Will Receive
- Charts detailing:
- Factors to consider when selecting a private loan
- Factors that impact a credit score
- Credit reports
- Alternative methods of meeting unmet need
- Upcoming changes to loan counseling requirements
- 2001 and 2002 State Legislation on Credit Card Solicitation to Students
- Useful debt management web sites
- The Big Chill and How Much Does that Latte Really Cost (debt management activities from The Access Group)
- Sense and Centsibility course outline (a debt management course offered at Ohio University's School of Medicine)
Federal Work-Study: Promoting Community Service
Topics Covered
- Administrative requirements for implementing community service jobs in the Federal Work-Study (FWS) program
- On- and off-campus employment requirements
- Methods to implement community service programs and achieve the minimum community service requirement
What You Will Receive
- Charts detailing:
- Federal share compensation limitations
- Recordkeeping requirements
- FWS employment conditions and limitations
- Definitions of community service terms
- Model off-campus agreement form
- Need assessment for community service program form
- Job Location and Development information sheet
- Marketing suggestions for community service employment
- Regulatory resources guide for the Federal Work-Study Program
- Policies and procedures for the Federal Work-Study Program
Cost
The price for a set of the Debt Management: Strategies, Options, and Implications, and the Federal Work-Study: Promoting Community Service modules is $35 for Members and $70 for nonmembers. The price for individual modules is $20 per module for Members and $40 per module for nonmembers.
How To Order:
To order the Spring Training Workshop materials, please place your order online
or return your order
form with payment to the NASFAA office.
You may also fax your completed order
form to 202-785-1487. If you have questions about your order, please
e-mail your inquiry to pubs@nasfaa.org or call 202-785-6949.
Contact Information
Questions about the content of the modules may be addressed to AskRegs@NASFAA.org.
Questions related to module orders should be addressed to pubs@NASFAA.org.
What Your Colleagues Have to
Say About the Workshop Materials
Here is what some our workshop attendees have to say about their workshop experiences:
"The regulatory citations on the handouts are very useful." Financial aid administrator from a four-year public school, two to five years experience – Morgantown, WV workshop
"The handouts are a great reference and the slideshow really pinpointed the facts." Financial aid administrator from a four-year private school, less than two years experience – Hanover, NH workshop
"All the materials are outstanding!" Financial aid administrator from a public school, with more than 15 years experience – Lexington, KY workshop
Updated February 13, 2006 on www.NASFAA.org, the Web Site of the
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).
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