College Aid Services

JANUARY 9, 2024

The English and Spanish FAFSA Submission Summary are now available online as a training resource for financial aid professionals. To access the documents, click the PDF links at the bottom of the FSA press release below.

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College Aid Services

AUGUST 6, 2024

Financial Aid administrators can access the 2024-25 training materials for this year’s Learning Tracks, which are designed as brief courses that focus on one particular subject at a time and are available through the FSA Training Center.

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College Planners of America

MAY 13, 2023

This fact, which is expected to cause difficulties throughout the financial aid and college admissions process, is glossed over by the positive spin that the ED has adopted for the Better FAFSA Better Future Roadmap (Roadmap) that is the primary instrument for the rollout.

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College Aid Services

JUNE 21, 2024

Starting July 1st, Financial Aid offices will receive the NSLDS Incarcerated Student Report: a new annual report that identifies Pell Grant recipients who are incarcerated or confined without a release date.

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College Aid Services

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

POSTED DATE: November 14, 2023 AUTHOR: Federal Student Aid ELECTRONIC ANNOUNCEMENT ID: GENERAL-23-99… More » Confirm TG Numbers and Electronic Services by December 7th to Maintain Access to Federal Student Aid Systems The post Confirm TG Numbers and Electronic Services by December 7th to Maintain Access to Federal Student Aid Systems first appeared (..)

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

With trustworthy data stored in a secure location (known as a data warehouse), a data management platform allows your campus to govern data, assign data access based on user roles, put data into action, and develop customized dashboards. Edify automatically standardizes data from those systems so that it is clean, accessible, and trustworthy.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

The roots of these equity gaps in many places fall at the feet of the colleges and institutions themselves, the way we admit students, the way we advise them, the way we register them for classes, the way we package them for financial aid.". They need tech help, they need Wi-Fi access at home. But in other cases, it’s much more.

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EAB

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Particular areas of focus for Art include: student access, diversity, inclusion, expression, and success; faculty diversity, inclusion, and expression; and institutional accountability and accreditation. The Court didn't address financial aid and scholarships. And I think that's about as apt a description as any I've seen.

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Customized Onboarding Frictionless Services Accessible Campus Community Flexible Academic Pathways Holistic Well-Being Support Proactive Career Preparation. Only 29% of respondents said their college collects and stores information on prospective students’ interests and preferences in one place that is easily accessible to staff.

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College Aid Services

APRIL 5, 2024

Institutions now have access to the newest version of the 2024-2025 Federal Student Aid Handbook, which include changes to the volumes related to managing federal aid funding and student eligibility.

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 9, 2024

FSA is conducting another set of webinars designed to answer your most pressing questions about the new FAFSA application.

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College Aid Services

JULY 31, 2024

Federal Student Aid revealed yesterday that batch institutional corrections will be delayed until the 2025-26 because schools would not have access until after the fall semester begins and to prioritize a success rollout of next year’s FAFSA application.

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College Aid Services

JULY 31, 2024

The Department of Education announced it will maintain its temporary policies for applications without a SSN to access the 2024-25 FAFSA form until it can resolve the underlying issues with secondary identity verifications.

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College Aid Services

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The was a record 22,400 registered participants for the four-day training conference.

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College Aid Services

JUNE 17, 2024

Eastern time (ET) on Sunday, June 30, 2024 In addition, users will not have access… More » COD Implementation for 2024-25 Outage Scheduled for June 30th The post COD Implementation for 2024-25 Outage Scheduled for June 30th first appeared on College Aid Services. The outage is scheduled to occur from midnight to 11 a.m.

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College Aid Services

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Two volumes from the 2024-2025 Federal Student Aid Handbook regarding student eligibility for awards, parent borrowers, and Pell Grants are now publicly available. To access all nine volumes of the handbook or submit any questions that you may have, visit FSA’s Knowledge Center as well as their Customer Support webpages.

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College Aid Services

MARCH 5, 2024

Updated SAIG software installation required to access ISIRs, explained in EA on 2/27/2024. FSA transmitted test file to active… More » Stay Informed: Key Updates on 2024-2025 ISIR Transmission and Delivery The post Stay Informed: Key Updates on 2024-2025 ISIR Transmission and Delivery first appeared on College Aid Services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) has issued its final report and a toolkit for financial aid professionals across the nation in anticipation of the resumption of federal student loan repayments. Because we have responsibility over our cohort default rates as well.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2023

This will adversely affect the college plans of students planning to apply in the 2023-24 admissions cycle as well as students who need to re-apply for Federal aid each year. The delay of the 2023 FAFSA launch from October 1 to December worries advocates of greater access to college for low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These new steps include reducing verification requirements, suspending routine school compliance reviews and providing flexibility on renewing participation in the federal student aid programs. Our concierge service is up and running, and we’re getting ready to deploy financial aid experts to support colleges.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Hayes notes specific requirements that programs must meet, adding that the VA works closely with the SAAs, or State Approving Agencies, to ensure that all applicable approval requirements are initially met and subsequently monitor schools to verify ongoing compliance. Bill,” said Hayes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

The Department of Education’s announcement last week of a secret shopper program to investigate the recruitment, enrollment, and financial aid practices of schools has garnered mixed reactions. While advocates of access hailed the policy, the for-profit sector and financial aid offices raised worries.

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