From nvollertsen at uco.edu Thu Jan 17 10:00:46 2013 From: nvollertsen at uco.edu (Nancy Vollertsen) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:00:46 -0600 Subject: [Oasfaa] Citizens Caring for Children Message-ID: <18B8F2010B91E144BC6EB64508D710131FAC4B9EE1@EXCHANGE.uco.local> Happy New Year everyone! It doesn't seem possible that the holidays are over, a new semester is beginning, and the 2013 OASFAA conference is just around the corner. This year's conference will be held April 17-19 at the Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa and the conference committee is busy putting together what promises to be the best conference ever! Most of you are aware that OASFAA always sponsors a charitable project during the conference and, as we've done for the past several years, this year we will again be supporting Citizens Caring for Children. It is a wonderful organization that assists foster children in a myriad of ways. They provide clothing, shoes, duffel bags, books, school supplies, mentors and other necessities to more than 3,600 foster children each year. The children served have been removed from their homes because of abuse and/or neglect with nothing but the clothing on their backs. Last year we helped support their mentoring program and it was such a success that they have asked us to do that again. This year they are partnering with The Mentoring Project so they are hoping that the number of mentors in their program will grow dramatically. Mentors are individuals in the community who are paired with a foster child and commit to spending time each month with the child being mentored. The mentors are volunteering their time and resources to help provide a stable relationship for the child and one way of doing that is to take the child out for some fun activities. In an effort to help make that more affordable for the mentors we will be collecting gift cards at the conference that they can use on outings. They can use cards from restaurants, movie theaters, museums, the zoo.......just use your imagination! Since we all like a little competition we will be dividing into teams, with something "special" planned for the winner (or loser) at the dinner Thursday night. It's usually very entertaining! You will receive more information on team captains soon. So now is not too soon to start picking up those gift cards while you're out shopping, eating, or going to the movies. It might also be a good way to use some of those gift cards you got for Christmas! OASFAA has always been incredibly generous and I know this year won't be any different. We're doing it for the kids, our future college students. They are so worth it! Nancy Vollertsen Program Chair Nancy Vollertsen Financial Aid Counselor University of Central Oklahoma 100 N. 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We hope to have the letters out by February 1st, so you may want to start determining which students are eligible so you can apply their award as quickly as possible. Thank you!! If you have questions, contact Dr. Debbie Blanke, dblanke at osrhe.edu or 405.225.9145. Debbie Blanke, Ed.D. Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104 PO Box 108850 Oklahoma City, OK 73101-8850 dblanke at osrhe.edu 405.225.9145 (voice) 405.225.9230 (fax) www.okhighered.org "Be kinder than necessary; everyone you meet is facing some kind of battle." --Anonymous -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonna.raney at okbu.edu Tue Jan 29 08:37:26 2013 From: jonna.raney at okbu.edu (Jonna Raney) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:37:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Oasfaa] NASFAA University?? Message-ID: <156773334.3808098.1359470246881.JavaMail.root@okbu.edu> I'm curious. Are any of you taking the tests/courses offered by Nasfaa university? I'm not inclined to pay for tests just to show me what I don't know, but I don't want to be left out. :) Jonna -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clint.larue at oc.edu Tue Jan 29 08:46:15 2013 From: clint.larue at oc.edu (Clint Larue) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:46:15 -0600 Subject: [Oasfaa] NASFAA University?? In-Reply-To: <156773334.3808098.1359470246881.JavaMail.root@okbu.edu> References: <156773334.3808098.1359470246881.JavaMail.root@okbu.edu> Message-ID: Jonna, I?m not inclined to pay for the tests either. I?m somewhat interested in how I might do, but my curiousity isn?t so much that I?m willing to pay the fee. Clint *From:* oasfaa-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto: oasfaa-bounces at lists.onenet.net] *On Behalf Of *Jonna Raney *Sent:* Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:37 AM *To:* oasfaa at onenet.net *Subject:* [Oasfaa] NASFAA University?? I'm curious. Are any of you taking the tests/courses offered by Nasfaa university? I'm not inclined to pay for tests just to show me what I don't know, but I don't want to be left out. :) Jonna -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: