What is your greatest concern in dealing with audits or auditors? How do you handle that concern?

How beneficial is reporting to you as it relates to meeting your students' needs? Please explain your position.

What process(es) in the Business Office do you find to be cumbersome or antiquated? How would you change these to be more beneficial to the staff and students?

Which of the three items - Timeliness, Accuracy or Service is most important to you in your process? Provide an explanation on why you selected the specific item.

Are these type of grants only available to colleges?

I agree that keeping all department areas involved in default management is important as well as keeping constant reminders such as posters in their surroundings. However, in past experience, I have found that individuals default based on lack of knowledge. A lot of people are used to a fast-paced world and don't take the time to read what they are signing. I believe the most important thing is to explain in detail and visually show the student all aspects of his loans during his first financial aid consultation.

The topic discussed on Life Skills Classes is critical for many students who are coming straight from high school. This group of students may not have a true picture of the importance of budgeting money, managing credit accounts, and paying off debts. I'm not sure that this area could be an actual "class"; however, a 1 or 2 hour "workshop" would definitely be a feasible time period. With this being said a few questions that I had are: 1) At what point should this "workshop" be offered since most students will have a full course load? 2) Should this "workshop" be mandatory for all students? 3) Who is responsible for running this workshop?

I was really impressed with the idea of using postive reinforcement as a default management tool. Are there any other ideas and suggestions that work on the same principle and are equally effective?

I like the idea of sending Good Credit Letters to students who are making cash payments to the school on time. We've never tried this and I am curious if anyone else has and what kind of response they have experienced.

How can we really make students understand how important it is for them to repay their loans? I feel like even after all of the paperwork that is given to them, they still do not feel like they are obligated.

As the Executive Director of a small campus (400 students) and another location opening shortly. My question to the Financial Aid staff is what part of the process gives you the most stress and as a Director what could I do to help?

In order to help the college achieve the 90-10 goal our Admissions Office is pushing cash payments and company tuition reimbursement, a lot of students do not know that their company even offers reimbursement until you suggest it to them

In order to help prevent audit findings our Admissions Office has a double check by the DOA for accuracy of files before they are submitted to our registrar for input.

our college does not participate in the perkins loan program, is this somehting worth pursuing?

Our ADmissions Dept has set a standard of 24hours for students to come back to a package, is this a problem with the feds?

is it ok for the Admissions Department to talk to students about diffenent payment plans?

How can the admissions dept help lower the default rate of the school?

we have a lot of students with bad credit when they come into the school and don't qualify for private loans, is there anything we can do to help them improve their credit while they are here?

Our Business Office collects references from the cash paying students as well, just in case they lieave school with a balance

What do you think about sharing the schools default rate with students? I know they can and should access this online, but do you think it would help them to understand how they play a role in helping or hurtin future students and their ability to borrow?