From sjoyner at otag.org Wed Feb 7 09:30:33 2001 From: sjoyner at otag.org (Joyner, Shiela) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:21 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] New E-Mail Address For OTAG / 2001-2002 EFC Cutoff Message-ID: <67B1776185FFD311926100805FC11F9D95738E@handel.ogslp.org> Good Morning, The increased volume of e-mail messages being received by the OTAG office has led us to establish a new e-mail address for the exclusive use by school representatives to transmit OTAG Excel reports, ftp file notifications, updates, and inquiries. Peggy Buller and Shipra Sinha will share the responsibility for managing this new mailbox. General e-mail addresses for OTAG are now as follows: STUDENT inquiries: OTAGINFO@OTAG.ORG SCHOOL inquiries: REPORTS@OTAG.ORG We ask that you share only the OTAGINFO@OTAG.ORG address with your students. The new REPORTS@OTAG.ORG address was set up to assist us in keeping school e-mail traffic separated from student inquiries. Our goal is to provide quicker and better service to both schools and students. With regard to Excel reports transmitted by OTAG, from this point forward by clicking on the "reply" button in the message OTAG originated, your returned report will automatically be addressed to REPORTS@OTAG.ORG. On another topic, for schools ready to begin packaging for 2001-2002, we can inform you that the EFC cutoff for OTAG eligibility will be 4900. Payment schedules reflecting the 2001-2002 cutoff as well as updated alternate EFI schedules reflecting $4900 as the per-family-member cost-of-living offset will be forwarded to schools in the near future. Be reminded that the 4900 EFC cutoff will apply only to renewal applicants and that the EFC cutoff for non-renewal applicants will remain 1500 in 2001-2002. We are looking forward to a year of refinement of the new OTAG processes and welcome your comments and suggestions. We will be meeting with the OTAG Technical Advisory Committee on Thursday, February 8. If you have OTAG reporting or applications processing issues that you would like us to include in our discussions with this advisory group, please contact me today. ************************************ Shiela Joyner, Director Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant Program P. O. Box 3020 Oklahoma City, OK 73101-3020 Internet: sjoyner@otag.org Voice: (405) 858-4356 Fax: (405) 858-4392 From mmowdy at ogslp.org Thu Feb 8 11:21:51 2001 From: mmowdy at ogslp.org (Mowdy, Mary) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:22 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] February 15 OGSLP Conference - Registrations due Tomorrow Message-ID: <67B1776185FFD311926100805FC11F9D9712E6@handel.ogslp.org> Just a reminder that we would like to have your registrations by this Friday (tomorrow) for our conference next week. You may fax your registration to 405-858-4459 or email to: hgarrett@ogslp.org Our conference agenda is looking very good for our one-day event: 8:00 -9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:15 Welcome 9:15-10:15 General Session: Review of New Regulations Pertaining to FFELP, including Teacher Loan Forgiveness 10:15-10:30 Break 10:30-11:45 NSLDS General Session - Global Issues 12:00-1:30 Luncheon, Guest Speaker Art Hayes 1:45-2:45 Three Breakout Sessions: Mapping Your Future NSLDS Hands On Training for Schools Debt Management /Debt Counseling - OGSLP Activities and National Trends 2:45-3:00 Break 3:00-4:30 Industry Update General Session OGSLP Update SLMA/USAG Upcoming OGSLP Move Disbursement Service Update Electronic Signature Developments Market Mechanism Developments Closing Call anyone in the Client Relations area with questions! 800-247-0420 or 858-4329 Mary Mowdy, Associate Director Oklahoma Guaranteed Student Loan Program Customer Services Division P. O. Box 3000, Oklahoma City, OK 73101-3000 405/858-4310 800-247-0420 fax: 405/858-4565 agency fax: 405/858-4390 From bfair at osrhe.edu Sun Feb 11 17:25:31 2001 From: bfair at osrhe.edu (Fair, Bryce) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:22 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] Scholarship/Grant Bills in the Oklahoma Legislature Message-ID: Following are bills that have been introduced this session related to scholarship/grant programs. If you are interested in tracking the weekly progress of any of the bills, you can view reports posted each Friday on the State Regents website at: http://www.okhighered.org/legislative_updates/2001/index.html You can read the text of the bill by using the hotlink at the end of the bill description. * SB 149 (Wilcoxson) - Tuition Scholarship REVOLVING FUND. Changing the name of the Oklahoma Tuition Scholarship Revolving Fund to the Oklahoma Scholarship Revolving Fund; allowing monies to be used only for payment authorized by the Academic Scholars Act, the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program Act and the Oklahoma Tuition Scholarship Act. (62 ? 41.29e) [Note: This is the fund that was created two years ago to receive a portion of the oil tax. Last year, monies in the fund were appropriated for general higher education operating purposes, not specifically for scholarship expenses.] * SB 351 (Wilcoxson/Coleman) - OKLAHOMA TUITION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. Limiting the Oklahoma Tuition Scholarship Program to freshman and junior years of enrollment; requiring students to achieve at least a 3.25 grade point average in high school; providing that payment of scholarships begins during the 2003-2004 academic year. (70 ?? 2611, 2612) [Note: This is the program, passed last session for 2003 high school graduates with a 26ACT, 3.25 GPA, top 15% of class, family income under $70,000, etc.] * SB 586 (Henry) - Tuition Equalization Grant PROGRAM. Creating an Oklahoma Tuition Equalization Grant Program to provide the maximum possible use of existing educational resources and facilities within the state, both public and private; authorizing the State Regents to award tuition equalization grants of $2,000 to Oklahoma residents enrolled as undergraduate students in any approved private or independent higher education institution in the state. (70 ?? 2620/2622) * SB 809 (Henry) - HOPE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. Creating the Oklahoma Quality Education Initiative Act; creating the Helping Oklahoma People Excel (HOPE) Scholarship program; creating the Educational Facilities Grant program. (70 ?? 2620/2623) [Note: This bill is tied to a state question to create a lottery. See SJR 24 below.] * SJR 24 (Henry) - LOTTERY. Enacting the Oklahoma Lottery Act; earmarking revenues for Quality Education Initiative; creating Oklahoma Lottery Commission and Oklahoma Lottery; providing for vote of the people. * HB 1080 (Coleman/Wilcoxson) - TUITION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. Removing the requirement for participation in the Oklahoma Tuition Scholarship Program that students must have a standard high school diploma; requiring that the two-year scholarship be paid the during the first and third years of enrollment at a higher education institution or the first two years of enrollment in a two-year vocational-technical program; increasing state residency requirement from two years to four years prior to completion of a high school curriculum; removing the requirement that a participant must have a graduate ranking in the top 15 percent of the student's high school class; requiring that the participant have earned at least a 3.25 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale in the core curriculum. (70 ?? 2611, 2612) * HB 1645 (Deutschendorf) - TULSA RACE RIOT MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP. Creating the Tulsa Race Riot Minority Scholarship Trust Fund; requiring certain percent of the Trust Fund be provided to minorities in certain priority; authorizing certain percent of the Trust Fund be provided to other persons; providing for a credit against certain tax. (68 ? 2357.85, 70 ? 3953.4) * HB 1896 (Blackburn/Henry) - INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR college SAVINGS. Establishing a state income tax deduction for contributions to Oklahoma College Savings Plan accounts, not to exceed $2,500 per year per account. (68 ? 2358) * HB 1901 (Ross) - GREENWOOD AREA SCHOLARSHIP. Creating the Greenwood Area Education and Scholarship Program to provide an award to descendants of the victims and survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot D0isaster who meet certain criteria. (70 ? 2620) Bryce Fair Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education State Capitol Complex 500 Education Building Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4500 Phone: (405) 524-9162 FAX: (405) 524-9230 e-mail: bfair@osrhe.edu