From danielle.wellman at okbu.edu Tue Aug 3 08:14:16 2021 From: danielle.wellman at okbu.edu (Danielle Wellman) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:14:16 +0000 Subject: [Oasfaa] HEERF Funds and Student Debt In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Our CFO is very interested in the schools who seem to be advertising that they are using HEERF III funds to "wipe student debt." We've seen a few articles floating around with these claims, but I've told him I don't see any stretch of the imagination that would allow this using the STUDENT grant portion. Everything I've read continues to insist that a student must give permission for a school to apply the funds to their balance and must be notified of their right to receive a check. He continues to ask me to research how schools are doing this... my guess is that they are calling it lost revenue and using the institutional portion?? Would anyone else agree? I don't see that the student portion can be used in this "automatically wiping balances" manner, but am I missing anything other schools have found? [Oklahoma Baptist University] Danielle Wellman Director of Student Financial Services 500 West University, OBU Box 61242 Shawnee, OK 74804 Website: okbu.edu Phone: 405.585.5020 Fax: 405.585.5030 ________________________________ From: OASFAA on behalf of oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 12:00 PM To: oasfaa at lists.onenet.net Subject: OASFAA Digest, Vol 206, Issue 11 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of OBU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Send OASFAA mailing list submissions to oasfaa at lists.onenet.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/oasfaa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net You can reach the person managing the list at oasfaa-owner at lists.onenet.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OASFAA digest..." Today's Topics: 1. NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill (Boyd, Lori) 2. Financial Aid Advisor (Gore, Sonya D.) 3. OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder (Sanders, Diana) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:35:47 +0000 From: "Boyd, Lori" To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" Subject: [Oasfaa] NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill Last week, NASFAA published details of a new law-set to go into effect August 1, 2021-that includes several institutional disclosure requirements, some of which involve the financial aid office. NASFAA recently had the opportunity to engage with officials at the Veterans Administration (VA), which shed some light on how schools can comply or may already be complying with Section 1018 of the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 (Isakson/Roe). As a reminder, institutions who are not able to comply with the Section 1018 requirements prior to the effective date should submit a waiver application by August 1, 2021. [cid:image001.png at 01D5373C.65A18FB0] LORI BOYD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FISCAL OPERATIONS Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid 405.744.8730 * 119 Student Union * finaid.okstate.edu [cid:image010.png at 01D5373D.52894C00] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 11714 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 4958 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:38:06 +0000 From: "Gore, Sonya D." To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" Subject: [Oasfaa] Financial Aid Advisor Message-ID: <189fd3d1c37b4d5ab3fae931a360ba93 at occc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Oklahoma City Community College has an opening for a Financial Aid Advisor. The Financial Aid Advisor is responsible for receiving, evaluating, and verifying student data to award federal, state, institutional financial aid. Student eligibility is determined in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, policies and procedures. A person in this position is responsible for advising students on matters of financial aid eligibility, and for providing necessary information regarding student financial assistance programs, and using professional judgment in considering individual student requests for special consideration, satisfactory academic progress, dependency overrides, and debt management issues. Financial Aid Advisors are responsible for the administration of a specific financial aid programs or services such as outreach programs, Oklahoma's Promise scholarship program, or Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant program and other programs which warrant a specific assignment. https://www.occcjobs.com/postings/18641 Send someone our way! Sonya Gore Director, Financial Aid sonya.d.gore at occc.edu 7777 South May Avenue -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:20:19 +0000 From: "Sanders, Diana" To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" Subject: [Oasfaa] OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good morning everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and ready for a successful 2021-2022 award year! It is hard to believe we are already at the end of July (where did the summer go???). I wanted to remind everyone that the election for the 2021-2022 OASFAA board is now open. If your membership dues have been paid for the year, then you should have received the below link to vote. The election closes on August 2, so if you are the voting member don't forget to cast your vote! If you did not receive the link, that means your dues have lapsed! https://www.oasfaaok.org/Sys/Poll/26541 If you have not paid your OASFAA dues for the 2021-2022 year, it is not too late but you will want to renew (or join) soon so that you don't miss out on the election! Once your dues are paid, you will receive the link that will allow you to vote. https://www.oasfaaok.org/Join-us Oklahoma Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators - Join us Join us. If you are new to OASFAA and need to begin the membership process, please make your membership selection below. Associate membership is intended for government agencies, foundations, lenders, vendors, private and community organizations interested in student financial aid matters. www.oasfaaok.org We also still need a few committee chairs, but I will save that sales pitch for the August update. Take care and I will be in touch! Diana Sanders, Ed.D. Director of Financial Aid OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine OASFAA President 2021-2022 OSU-CHS Staff Advisory President 2021-2022 [cid:8f903065-b7d0-4794-b221-7e9c311df418] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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[cid:image001.png at 01D5373C.65A18FB0] LORI BOYD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FISCAL OPERATIONS Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid 405.744.8730 * 119 Student Union * finaid.okstate.edu [cid:image010.png at 01D5373D.52894C00] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 11714 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 4958 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: From bisaacs at ecok.edu Tue Aug 3 11:03:51 2021 From: bisaacs at ecok.edu (Isaacs, Rebecca Ann) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 16:03:51 +0000 Subject: [Oasfaa] HEERF Funds and Student Debt In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Danielle, Our interpretation is that the school can utilize "school funds" to wipe student debt, not the student portion. To use the student portion of the HEERF III funds, the student must give consent. One of the uses listed for the HEERF III funds for the school is for payment of student debt. Hope this helps. Becky From: OASFAA On Behalf Of Danielle Wellman Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 8:14 AM To: oasfaa at lists.onenet.net Subject: [Oasfaa] HEERF Funds and Student Debt [CAUTION] This email originated from outside East Central University. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Our CFO is very interested in the schools who seem to be advertising that they are using HEERF III funds to "wipe student debt." We've seen a few articles floating around with these claims, but I've told him I don't see any stretch of the imagination that would allow this using the STUDENT grant portion. Everything I've read continues to insist that a student must give permission for a school to apply the funds to their balance and must be notified of their right to receive a check. He continues to ask me to research how schools are doing this... my guess is that they are calling it lost revenue and using the institutional portion?? Would anyone else agree? I don't see that the student portion can be used in this "automatically wiping balances" manner, but am I missing anything other schools have found? [Oklahoma Baptist University] Danielle Wellman Director of Student Financial Services 500 West University, OBU Box 61242 Shawnee, OK 74804 Website: okbu.edu Phone: 405.585.5020 Fax: 405.585.5030 ________________________________ From: OASFAA > on behalf of oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net

> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 12:00 PM To: oasfaa at lists.onenet.net > Subject: OASFAA Digest, Vol 206, Issue 11 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of OBU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Send OASFAA mailing list submissions to oasfaa at lists.onenet.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/oasfaa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net You can reach the person managing the list at oasfaa-owner at lists.onenet.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OASFAA digest..." Today's Topics: 1. NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill (Boyd, Lori) 2. Financial Aid Advisor (Gore, Sonya D.) 3. OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder (Sanders, Diana) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:35:47 +0000 From: "Boyd, Lori" > To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" > Subject: [Oasfaa] NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill> Last week, NASFAA published details of a new law-set to go into effect August 1, 2021-that includes several institutional disclosure requirements, some of which involve the financial aid office. NASFAA recently had the opportunity to engage with officials at the Veterans Administration (VA), which shed some light on how schools can comply or may already be complying with Section 1018 of the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 (Isakson/Roe). As a reminder, institutions who are not able to comply with the Section 1018 requirements prior to the effective date should submit a waiver application by August 1, 2021. [cid:image001.png at 01D5373C.65A18FB0]> LORI BOYD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FISCAL OPERATIONS Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid 405.744.8730 * 119 Student Union * finaid.okstate.edu> [cid:image010.png at 01D5373D.52894C00]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 11714 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A person in this position is responsible for advising students on matters of financial aid eligibility, and for providing necessary information regarding student financial assistance programs, and using professional judgment in considering individual student requests for special consideration, satisfactory academic progress, dependency overrides, and debt management issues. Financial Aid Advisors are responsible for the administration of a specific financial aid programs or services such as outreach programs, Oklahoma's Promise scholarship program, or Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant program and other programs which warrant a specific assignment. https://www.occcjobs.com/postings/18641 Send someone our way! Sonya Gore Director, Financial Aid sonya.d.gore at occc.edu> 7777 South May Avenue -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:20:19 +0000 From: "Sanders, Diana" > To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" > Subject: [Oasfaa] OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good morning everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and ready for a successful 2021-2022 award year! It is hard to believe we are already at the end of July (where did the summer go???). I wanted to remind everyone that the election for the 2021-2022 OASFAA board is now open. If your membership dues have been paid for the year, then you should have received the below link to vote. The election closes on August 2, so if you are the voting member don't forget to cast your vote! If you did not receive the link, that means your dues have lapsed! https://www.oasfaaok.org/Sys/Poll/26541> If you have not paid your OASFAA dues for the 2021-2022 year, it is not too late but you will want to renew (or join) soon so that you don't miss out on the election! Once your dues are paid, you will receive the link that will allow you to vote. https://www.oasfaaok.org/Join-us Oklahoma Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators - Join us> Join us. If you are new to OASFAA and need to begin the membership process, please make your membership selection below. Associate membership is intended for government agencies, foundations, lenders, vendors, private and community organizations interested in student financial aid matters. www.oasfaaok.org We also still need a few committee chairs, but I will save that sales pitch for the August update. Take care and I will be in touch! Diana Sanders, Ed.D. 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URL: From danielle.wellman at okbu.edu Tue Aug 3 16:11:18 2021 From: danielle.wellman at okbu.edu (Danielle Wellman) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 21:11:18 +0000 Subject: [Oasfaa] Student Teacher Stipends In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have to admit the new announcement regarding Student Teacher stipends for this year fell off my radar over the summer. I'm realizing that a lot of our local schools start next week and the letter from the State Superintendent outlined that eligible students should receive their first amount at that time. In re-reading the letter I understand it to read that the initial incentive is a "Student Teaching Incentive Scholarship" so I take that to mean we will apply it as a scholarship to pay to the student account. The second portion being a "completion stipend" seems it will be a check cut directly to the student if they submit the required documentation? Can anyone let me know the processes they have in place for this? Am I understanding correctly that this first half should pay as a scholarship and count towards the students budget and need components? If so, I'm assuming I can get a list of the students our Education Dept submitted and go ahead and apply a scholarship to pay and when the check comes in the University will be reimbursed at that time? Thanks in advance, I've been hopping on this ListServ the last week! [Oklahoma Baptist University] Danielle Wellman Director of Student Financial Services 500 West University, OBU Box 61242 Shawnee, OK 74804 Website: okbu.edu Phone: 405.585.5020 Fax: 405.585.5030 ________________________________ From: OASFAA on behalf of oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:00 PM To: oasfaa at lists.onenet.net Subject: OASFAA Digest, Vol 207, Issue 1 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of OBU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Send OASFAA mailing list submissions to oasfaa at lists.onenet.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/oasfaa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net You can reach the person managing the list at oasfaa-owner at lists.onenet.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OASFAA digest..." Today's Topics: 1. HEERF Funds and Student Debt (Danielle Wellman) 2. ED Publishes Pair of HEERF Application Notices (Boyd, Lori) 3. Re: HEERF Funds and Student Debt (Isaacs, Rebecca Ann) 4. Re: HEERF Funds and Student Debt (Burnett, Bradley T.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:14:16 +0000 From: Danielle Wellman To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" Subject: [Oasfaa] HEERF Funds and Student Debt Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Our CFO is very interested in the schools who seem to be advertising that they are using HEERF III funds to "wipe student debt." We've seen a few articles floating around with these claims, but I've told him I don't see any stretch of the imagination that would allow this using the STUDENT grant portion. Everything I've read continues to insist that a student must give permission for a school to apply the funds to their balance and must be notified of their right to receive a check. He continues to ask me to research how schools are doing this... my guess is that they are calling it lost revenue and using the institutional portion?? Would anyone else agree? I don't see that the student portion can be used in this "automatically wiping balances" manner, but am I missing anything other schools have found? [Oklahoma Baptist University] Danielle Wellman Director of Student Financial Services 500 West University, OBU Box 61242 Shawnee, OK 74804 Website: okbu.edu Phone: 405.585.5020 Fax: 405.585.5030 ________________________________ From: OASFAA on behalf of oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 12:00 PM To: oasfaa at lists.onenet.net Subject: OASFAA Digest, Vol 206, Issue 11 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of OBU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Send OASFAA mailing list submissions to oasfaa at lists.onenet.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/oasfaa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net You can reach the person managing the list at oasfaa-owner at lists.onenet.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OASFAA digest..." Today's Topics: 1. NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill (Boyd, Lori) 2. Financial Aid Advisor (Gore, Sonya D.) 3. OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder (Sanders, Diana) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:35:47 +0000 From: "Boyd, Lori" To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" Subject: [Oasfaa] NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill Last week, NASFAA published details of a new law-set to go into effect August 1, 2021-that includes several institutional disclosure requirements, some of which involve the financial aid office. NASFAA recently had the opportunity to engage with officials at the Veterans Administration (VA), which shed some light on how schools can comply or may already be complying with Section 1018 of the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 (Isakson/Roe). As a reminder, institutions who are not able to comply with the Section 1018 requirements prior to the effective date should submit a waiver application by August 1, 2021. [cid:image001.png at 01D5373C.65A18FB0] LORI BOYD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FISCAL OPERATIONS Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid 405.744.8730 * 119 Student Union * finaid.okstate.edu [cid:image010.png at 01D5373D.52894C00] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 11714 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 4958 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:38:06 +0000 From: "Gore, Sonya D." To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" Subject: [Oasfaa] Financial Aid Advisor Message-ID: <189fd3d1c37b4d5ab3fae931a360ba93 at occc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Oklahoma City Community College has an opening for a Financial Aid Advisor. The Financial Aid Advisor is responsible for receiving, evaluating, and verifying student data to award federal, state, institutional financial aid. Student eligibility is determined in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, policies and procedures. A person in this position is responsible for advising students on matters of financial aid eligibility, and for providing necessary information regarding student financial assistance programs, and using professional judgment in considering individual student requests for special consideration, satisfactory academic progress, dependency overrides, and debt management issues. Financial Aid Advisors are responsible for the administration of a specific financial aid programs or services such as outreach programs, Oklahoma's Promise scholarship program, or Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant program and other programs which warrant a specific assignment. https://www.occcjobs.com/postings/18641 Send someone our way! Sonya Gore Director, Financial Aid sonya.d.gore at occc.edu 7777 South May Avenue -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:20:19 +0000 From: "Sanders, Diana" To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" Subject: [Oasfaa] OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good morning everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and ready for a successful 2021-2022 award year! It is hard to believe we are already at the end of July (where did the summer go???). I wanted to remind everyone that the election for the 2021-2022 OASFAA board is now open. If your membership dues have been paid for the year, then you should have received the below link to vote. The election closes on August 2, so if you are the voting member don't forget to cast your vote! If you did not receive the link, that means your dues have lapsed! https://www.oasfaaok.org/Sys/Poll/26541 If you have not paid your OASFAA dues for the 2021-2022 year, it is not too late but you will want to renew (or join) soon so that you don't miss out on the election! Once your dues are paid, you will receive the link that will allow you to vote. https://www.oasfaaok.org/Join-us Oklahoma Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators - Join us Join us. If you are new to OASFAA and need to begin the membership process, please make your membership selection below. Associate membership is intended for government agencies, foundations, lenders, vendors, private and community organizations interested in student financial aid matters. www.oasfaaok.org We also still need a few committee chairs, but I will save that sales pitch for the August update. Take care and I will be in touch! Diana Sanders, Ed.D. Director of Financial Aid OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine OASFAA President 2021-2022 OSU-CHS Staff Advisory President 2021-2022 [cid:8f903065-b7d0-4794-b221-7e9c311df418] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 4958 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 16:03:51 +0000 From: "Isaacs, Rebecca Ann" To: Danielle Wellman , "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" Subject: Re: [Oasfaa] HEERF Funds and Student Debt Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Danielle, Our interpretation is that the school can utilize "school funds" to wipe student debt, not the student portion. To use the student portion of the HEERF III funds, the student must give consent. One of the uses listed for the HEERF III funds for the school is for payment of student debt. Hope this helps. Becky From: OASFAA On Behalf Of Danielle Wellman Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 8:14 AM To: oasfaa at lists.onenet.net Subject: [Oasfaa] HEERF Funds and Student Debt [CAUTION] This email originated from outside East Central University. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Our CFO is very interested in the schools who seem to be advertising that they are using HEERF III funds to "wipe student debt." We've seen a few articles floating around with these claims, but I've told him I don't see any stretch of the imagination that would allow this using the STUDENT grant portion. Everything I've read continues to insist that a student must give permission for a school to apply the funds to their balance and must be notified of their right to receive a check. He continues to ask me to research how schools are doing this... my guess is that they are calling it lost revenue and using the institutional portion?? Would anyone else agree? I don't see that the student portion can be used in this "automatically wiping balances" manner, but am I missing anything other schools have found? [Oklahoma Baptist University] Danielle Wellman Director of Student Financial Services 500 West University, OBU Box 61242 Shawnee, OK 74804 Website: okbu.edu Phone: 405.585.5020 Fax: 405.585.5030 ________________________________ From: OASFAA > on behalf of oasfaa-request at lists.onenet.net

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OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder (Sanders, Diana) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:35:47 +0000 From: "Boyd, Lori" > To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" > Subject: [Oasfaa] NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" NASFAA Receives Clarification from Veterans Administration on Isakson Roe Veterans Bill> Last week, NASFAA published details of a new law-set to go into effect August 1, 2021-that includes several institutional disclosure requirements, some of which involve the financial aid office. NASFAA recently had the opportunity to engage with officials at the Veterans Administration (VA), which shed some light on how schools can comply or may already be complying with Section 1018 of the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 (Isakson/Roe). As a reminder, institutions who are not able to comply with the Section 1018 requirements prior to the effective date should submit a waiver application by August 1, 2021. [cid:image001.png at 01D5373C.65A18FB0]> LORI BOYD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FISCAL OPERATIONS Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid 405.744.8730 * 119 Student Union * finaid.okstate.edu> [cid:image010.png at 01D5373D.52894C00]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 11714 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A person in this position is responsible for advising students on matters of financial aid eligibility, and for providing necessary information regarding student financial assistance programs, and using professional judgment in considering individual student requests for special consideration, satisfactory academic progress, dependency overrides, and debt management issues. Financial Aid Advisors are responsible for the administration of a specific financial aid programs or services such as outreach programs, Oklahoma's Promise scholarship program, or Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant program and other programs which warrant a specific assignment. https://www.occcjobs.com/postings/18641 Send someone our way! Sonya Gore Director, Financial Aid sonya.d.gore at occc.edu> 7777 South May Avenue -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:20:19 +0000 From: "Sanders, Diana" > To: "oasfaa at lists.onenet.net" > Subject: [Oasfaa] OASFAA Board member election and membership dues reminder Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good morning everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and ready for a successful 2021-2022 award year! It is hard to believe we are already at the end of July (where did the summer go???). I wanted to remind everyone that the election for the 2021-2022 OASFAA board is now open. If your membership dues have been paid for the year, then you should have received the below link to vote. The election closes on August 2, so if you are the voting member don't forget to cast your vote! If you did not receive the link, that means your dues have lapsed! https://www.oasfaaok.org/Sys/Poll/26541> If you have not paid your OASFAA dues for the 2021-2022 year, it is not too late but you will want to renew (or join) soon so that you don't miss out on the election! Once your dues are paid, you will receive the link that will allow you to vote. https://www.oasfaaok.org/Join-us Oklahoma Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators - Join us> Join us. If you are new to OASFAA and need to begin the membership process, please make your membership selection below. Associate membership is intended for government agencies, foundations, lenders, vendors, private and community organizations interested in student financial aid matters. www.oasfaaok.org We also still need a few committee chairs, but I will save that sales pitch for the August update. Take care and I will be in touch! Diana Sanders, Ed.D. 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We recommend printing the reference guides and hanging them up at your desk so you can easily check the 2021-22 limits and requirements when needed. Also newly updated for 2021-22 are the tip sheets for unique student populations. Certain students face unique challenges when applying for financial aid. These tip sheets are designed to help unique student populations overcome these challenges to successfully navigate the financial aid process and access higher education [cid:image001.png at 01D5373C.65A18FB0] LORI BOYD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FISCAL OPERATIONS Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid 405.744.8730 * 119 Student Union * finaid.okstate.edu [cid:image010.png at 01D5373D.52894C00] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Mendy Schmerer, MEd, FAAC(r) Director, Office of Student Financial Aid | SWASFAA President, 2020 - 2021 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 865 University Research Park, Suite 240 | Oklahoma City, OK 73104 O (405) 271-2118, x 48817 | F (405) 271-5446 Mendy-Schmerer at ouhsc.edu https://financialservices.ouhsc.edu/Departments/Student-Financial-Aid www.facebook.com/OUHSCFinancialAid [FAAC_logo_101520] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email, including any attachments, contains information from The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. 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