From linda.good at okstate.edu Mon Dec 3 14:59:13 2018 From: linda.good at okstate.edu (Good, Linda) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:59:13 +0000 Subject: [Oasfaa] Oklahoma's requirement to get all FAFSA data for all students Message-ID: For those of you who were able to travel to Atlanta to the FSA Conference, I hope you returned home safely and uneventfully. Friday evening weather was a challenge, to put it mildly. I went to the Skip Logic - What's the Question? session #30 at FSA (highly recommended for viewing when they put out the audio presentations, in my opinion) and was reminded that Oklahoma is one of fourteen states that does not allow our resident students to skip income and asset questions on the FAFSA, even though the information they have to provide doesn't give a different EFC than if they had been able to benefit from the skip logic. Can someone remind me why that is? It seems like it's tied to the OTAG program, but my memory is fuzzy. The presentation was impressive in showing how many screens/questions some students get to skip due to how they answer certain questions. It's unfortunate none of our Oklahoma students, especially our needier students, benefit from that. Thanks, Linda Linda Koehn Good, M.S. Associate Director, Client Services Office of Scholarships & Financial Aid Oklahoma State University 119 Student Union | Stillwater, OK 74078 405-744-7568 financialaid.okstate.edu [cid:image001.png at 01CD3500.5B9D73D0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Pre-populated Award Claim Forms generated by OTAG for Spring 2019 will include: * students who were awarded and disbursed in Fall 2018 * students who were awarded and subsequently cancelled in Fall 2018, unless they were cancelled due to a change in EFC greater than 1700 * students with award potential who were not awarded in fall but could be awarded in spring -- this group includes students with FAFSA receipt dates from 10/01/2017 through 02/15/2018 and EFCs of 1700 or lower. Students included in an Excel pre-populated Award Claim Form for spring will be sorted in the following order: * Awarded * Cancelled * Pending On the Excel spreadsheet Award Claim Form this status will be displayed in Column J. On the Text Award Claim Form the status will be displayed in Field #11, Position 71. As in fall Award Claim Form reporting, institutions using the pre-populated form will need to delete information for students who should not be paid in spring (even if they were paid in fall) and edit the information as appropriate (FT/PT, over awards, etc.) for the students to be paid in spring. More detailed instructions will accompany the spring pre-populated or blank template reports. If you would like to receive a "work copy" pre-populated Award Claim Form to assist you in identifying additional students who can be awarded in spring, please send a request to reports at otag.org. Please contact our office at 405.225.9456 or toll free 800.858.1840 or send e-mail to reports at otag.org if you have questions or require more information regarding spring OTAG awarding and disbursement processes. We wish you all Happy Holidays! Irala K. Magee Assistant Vice Chancellor for Scholarship and Grant Administration Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education P.O. 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Alicia Smith, OASFAA President Alicia Smith, BS,ML Financial Aid Director/Certifying VA Offical Metro Technology Centers 1900 Springlake Drive OKC OK 73111 405-595-4437 Fax 405-424-4010 Alicia.smith at metrotech.edu [cid:image003.png at 01D0395D.E5F3DB50] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 4341 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 10496 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: From M.Rinehart at sscok.edu Tue Dec 18 09:36:07 2018 From: M.Rinehart at sscok.edu (Melanie Rinehart) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:36:07 +0000 Subject: [Oasfaa] 2019 Conference Presenter and Moderators Needed!!!! Message-ID: Good morning to all of my fellow FAA'ers! I hope my email finds everyone doing well! This is the annual call (plead) to all of you outstanding OASFAA members to volunteer as a presenter or moderator for the 2019 conference. Here are the details: Presenter - You will develop and present a topic of your choice. Do you want to present, but don't know what topic to choose? We have a list of topics that the 2019 OASFAA Program Committee has come up with... feel free to steal any of these ideas. NSLDS and Clearinghouse How to Stay Sane in a Insane FA World Ground Zero Training Private Lending/Alternative Loans Year Round Pell (Standard and Clock Hour) and Census Dates Early Packaging/Award Letters (Roundtable?) Crowd Source Funding (Verizon no cost to student) Life After Perkins Business Officer Training (Cash Management, G5, Reconciliation) BBAY Awarding EDExpress (Clock Hour) Verification Roundtables (School type, Technology, Staff Levels) Comment Codes on Citizenship Special Circumstances BASIC Tax Filing Status Are you a director and have awesome employees? Please encourage your staff to take this opportunity to challenge themselves. Presenting is not only a great way to improve skills, but it's a great networking opportunity and helps FAA's get recognized as an expert in the industry! Also... Directors... if you have an awesome counterpart in your Business Office, please, please, please... reach out to them and ask if they would be willing to present on topics such as G5, Reconciliation and Cash Management... all from a Business Office perspective. We want to provide a place for new (and some old) Business Officers to learn the rules and regs that are needed on their side of the house for financial aid, but we need some good presenters! Moderator - You will make sure the room is set up, address any needs of the presenter and welcome attendees as they come in the room. Then you will be responsible for starting the session on time by saying a short welcome and introducing the presenter for that session. Lastly, you will help the presenter end on time and facilitating a Q&A session at the end (if the presenter is ok with Q&A). Being a moderator is a great way to introduce yourself to a number in the industry! If you have an interest in performing either of these tasks, please email me at m.rinehart at sscok.edu! Or if you have any questions/doubts, email me those too! EVERYONE has something they can offer to the group so whether you've been doing financial aid for 5 or 50 years! Please consider helping us out! It really is a lot of fun! HAPPY HOLIDAYS to one and all! On behalf of the 2019 OASFAA Program Committee, Melanie Rinehart, MBA Director of Financial Assistance 2701 Boren Blvd P.O. Box 351 Seminole, OK 74868 Office: 405.382.9717 Fax: 405.382.9579 m.rinehart at sscok.edu [Description: Description: Description: ssc logo small] Electronic correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act and may be disclosed to third parties. 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