From Missi.Bryant at oc.edu Mon Apr 1 09:14:46 2002 From: Missi.Bryant at oc.edu (Missi Bryant) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:51 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] What a Run!!! Message-ID: <0570A090C50A294D93C6F59D634F21A7869812@esusa.oc.edu> WOOOOHOOOO! And let's not forget that the coaches (both of them) got their start playing ball at Oklahoma Christian University!!!!! -----Original Message----- From: Mc Conahay, Pamela K [mailto:pmcconahay@ou.edu] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 10:55 PM To: 'oasfaa@onenet.net' Subject: [Oasfaa] What a Run!!! No, it's no April fool's joke, I'm really celebrating the OU women's performance in the national championship game. Yes, I know they lost. No, I haven't lost ALL my marbles. If you had started watching these girls play 3 years ago (when they didn't have reserved seats because you could literally have a whole section to yourself), you'd realize just how far they've come in such a short time. I'm just so VERY PROUD of every one of them and thank them for the wonderful run, it has really made my heart soar. My husband says he's going to have to put me on heavy medication or investigate cryogenic storage until the next season starts. Yes, I'm proud of the guys too and I'm sorry that they didn't make it to the finals. I'm sorry that the Big 12 isn't represented in the men's final but, as for me, I'm rooting for Indiana tomorrow night. Why? I know some really good folks from Indiana, but mostly because I want to see the look on Bobby Knight's face when IU finally wins the Final Four without him. HA!!! And, I'm also very proud of all the other Oklahoma schools who have performed well in their conferences....we have some national champions in Oklahoma and you folks need to toot their horns out here too!!! BTW: I won't be at OASFAA this week. No, I'm not afraid of seeing you all in grass skirts; with these tight budget times I "traded" OASFAA to attend the NASFAA Best Practices Symposium in Dallas later this month. Have a good time and be careful with the pina coladas, they can sneak up on you! Pam McConahay _______________________________________________ OASFAA mailing list OASFAA@lists.onenet.net http://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/oasfaa From bfair at osrhe.edu Mon Apr 1 10:13:55 2002 From: bfair at osrhe.edu (Fair, Bryce) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:51 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] OHLAP article in Sunday Oklahoman Message-ID: For those of you that don't get the Sunday Oklahoman, I have attached below the text of an article on the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP) that ran on the front page of yesterday's paper. The article is titled, "Free tuition program needs funds". There were a couple of factual items that I think need clarification so you will see I have added three editorial notes in the text of the article below. Otherwise, we are very please to see this attention for the program. We believe the program will receive the additional funding it needs for next year's scholarships, but it is very important for everyone to realize how critical and difficult this effort is in the context of overall state budget cuts. The article can also be viewed online at: http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=841721&pic=none&TP=getarticle ================================================================== Free tuition program needs funds 2002-03-31 By Mick Hinton The Oklahoman A highly publicized free tuition program for Oklahoma's college-bound students has been so successful that the Legislature needs to bail it out with nearly $2 million more in appropriations. State regents for higher education say the program has been allotted $1.9 million annually by the Legislature. But it will need nearly $4.1 million next fiscal year just to meet commitments. "Whatever the price tag, we're going to get the money," said state Sen. Cal Hobson, who is vice chairman of the powerful Senate budget committee and chairman of the Senate subcommittee on education. Despite facing a huge shortfall for the next budget year, legislative leaders say they want to exclude education from budget cuts, but other lawmakers say that will be impossible. To help keep it afloat, Gov. Frank Keating is proposing boosting the free-tuition program by another $500,000 for a total of $2.4 million. [Editorial note #1: The Governor's budget proposal actually was to increase funding for OHLAP by $2.4 million, not to $2.4 million. The total funding proposed for OHLAP by the Governor was $4.3 million ($1.9 million current budget + $2.4 million increase), which is what we need.] "The governor certainly supports this scholarship plan, but it is up to the Legislature to see how it fits with the rest of the demands," Dan Mahoney, the governor's communications director, said Friday. It was Hobson's bill in 1999 that raised the income ceiling to $50,000 for an Oklahoma family to be eligible for the free-tuition program. The program is officially called the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP). Plan a lifesaver Cindy McCollum, who operates a drug store on the main street of Helena, says the free- tuition program has been a lifesaver for her family. The McCollums have two daughters, one in high school and the other in college. Cindy's husband, Merle, is a correctional officer at the James Crabtree Correctional Center in Helena. Some years, the drug store doesn't make a profit, said Cindy, but she wants to keep it going for the sake of the town. "No, our income doesn't exceed $50,000," she said, making her children eligible for the free-tuition program. Daughter Lindsey is a sophomore at Oklahoma State University, while daughter Kacie is a junior in high school. She attends Timberlake High School, part of a consolidated school district of 300 students. "If it wasn't for our counselor, Dirk Allen, we wouldn't have gotten into the program," McCollum said. Allen has signed up 19 of the 26 students in the sophomore class. Allen said in this agricultural community, everybody is usually associated with farming or operates a small business. Just about everybody makes less than $50,000, he said. Gradewise, students enrolled in the program must maintain a 2.5 grade point average. Across the state, students in the program are beating the minimum, averaging 3.5, said Bryce Fair, who administers the program for the State Regents for Higher Education. Tuition alone costs about $3,000 a year at OSU and the University of Oklahoma. At other four-year colleges, it is about $2,000. [Editorial note #2: The costs shown here appear to reflect tuition plus fees, rather than "tuition alone". The OHLAP award is based only on tuition, not tuition and fees. The amounts for "tuition alone" would be about $2,000 for OU and OSU and about $1,600 for regional four-year colleges.] The most costly expense is room and board. Regents estimate that it costs more than $4,400 at the two biggest colleges annually, and at least $2,500 at the other colleges. More grads needed "This program is doing exactly what it is supposed to do, and that is for the state to have more college graduates," said Hobson, D-Lexington. Regents have launched "Brain Gain 2010," intended to increase the number of college graduates in Oklahoma by 95,000 during this decade. Nationally, about 25 percent of adults over age 25 have college degrees. But in Oklahoma, only 20 percent have degrees. If high enrollment in the free tuitionprogram continues, education officials think they will reach the 2010 goal. In the Class of 2003, only 14 high schools have no students, who are now sophomores, enrolled in program. Students in the program make up 12 percent of the sophomores statewide. The free tuition program can do for Oklahoma what the GI Bill did for the nation, said Hans Brisch, state chancellor for higher education. "This program allows students to have hope and the opportunity, if they perform, much like our soldiers did. Once they were discharged, they could go to college." "Similarly, these students have to take 17 core units and stay out of trouble," he said. The stepped-up curriculum was developed because Oklahoma was not requiring enough hard courses in high school, according to a national study. Students were not taking rigorous courses in core academic subjects, such as math and science, Brisch said. Urban kids, too Nearly half, 47 percent, of the students enrolled in the program come from five urban counties: Oklahoma, Tulsa, Cleveland, Canadian and Comanche. The other 53 percent come from the other 72 counties in the state. [Editorial note #3: Actually, these percentages reflect the distribution of Oklahoma's total state population, not the OHLAP students. We contrast OHLAP enrollment in our annual report to this total state population ratio; 2001 OHLAP graduates were 27% urban (the five counties) and 73% rural (the other 72 counties). This shows that our OHLAP urban enrollment is significantly less than it should be, proportional to the state population.] At the outset, the program was expected to appeal to urban students in the inner city. Fair attributes success of the program to the high school counselors throughout the state. Donkor Khalid, counselor at Northeast Academy for science and math in Oklahoma City, was in charge of the state program for the first three years it was operating. He said he knew that it would work in rural areas where counselors can get to know their students very well. "They don't have as many students." However, Khalid has aggressively signed up students at Northeast. There are students such as Marcus Jernigan, who enrolled in his freshman year. The junior hopes to major in electrical engineering with a computer science minor. Last year, his family learned that Marcus's father had cancer. But Marcus said because of this program, he's pretty sure he will get to go to college. ========================================================= Bryce Fair Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Scholarships & Grants Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Phone: (405) 225-9162 Fax: (405) 225-9230 E-mail: bfair@osrhe.edu Mailing Address: P.O. Box 108850 Oklahoma City, OK 73101-8850 Street Address: 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 From DanGHolt at aol.com Tue Apr 2 07:33:49 2002 From: DanGHolt at aol.com (DanGHolt@aol.com) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:51 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] DFA position search extended in Kansas Message-ID: <4CA0C0EA.2EBA3CC3.006E4D09@aol.com> The search for Director of Financial Aid is being extended. Southwestern College is seeking a Director of Financial Aid to begin July 1, 2002. The director reports to the Vice President of Enrollment Management and is responsible for all facets of the colleges financial aid program. The director supervises staff and coordinates financial aid matters throughout the main campus as well as Professional Studies. Experience in higher education financial aid needed. A college degree is required, a master's preferred. Resumes are being accepted and review will begin April 15. Send resume and references to: Steve Wilke Vice President for Enrollment Management Southwestern College 100 College Street Winfield, KS 67156. E-mail: swilke@sckans.edu An EEO/AA employer. From DanGHolt at aol.com Tue Apr 2 09:30:59 2002 From: DanGHolt at aol.com (DanGHolt@aol.com) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:51 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] DFA position available in Sterling, KS Message-ID: <2B609B89.51692C76.006E4D09@aol.com> Sterling College does have an opening for a Director of Student Financial Assistant. Resumes should be sent to Dr. Cal White, Vice President for Enrollment Services, Sterling College, PO Box 98, Sterling, KS 67579. Susan Sillin, Financial Aid Assistant, resigned effective April 1, 2002, to begin a new position with Leisure Hotel Corporation. Jodi Lightner begins April 8, 2002, as Financial Aid Assistant. I am eagerly anticipating retirement.....again....once a new director is in place. Kay Barnes Interim Director of Financial aid From sjoyner at otag.org Tue Apr 2 09:38:52 2002 From: sjoyner at otag.org (Joyner, Shiela) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:51 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] New Awards Message-ID: <67B1776185FFD311926100805FC11F9D019F8B44@HANDEL> Good Morning, Today we are issuing 2001-2002 Award Rosters containing new awards for students reported with "packaged" status whose applications were received through May 20, 2001. Previously the cutoff was applications received through May 15, 2001. We have experienced an exceptionally high rate of cancellations in the spring semester which resulted in more funds than expected becoming available for recommitment. Unfortunately, a significant portion of these available funds were just recently made known to the OTAG office through cancellations on Confirmation Reports. As announced earlier in the year, we are obligated to expend all of the state funds available in order to meet our matching commitment for our federal LEAP/SLEAP allocation, and these additional award commitments are necessary in order to meet that obligation. You are encouraged to continue sending updates for your students for possible spring award consideration. We look forward to seeing many of you at the OASFAA conference. If you have questions concerning these new awards, please contact our office or see Peggy or myself at the conference. *********************** Shiela Joyner, Director Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant Program Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education P. O. Box 108850 Oklahoma City, OK 73101-8850 Internet: sjoyner@otag.org Voice: (405) 225-9456 Toll Free (877) 662-6231 Fax: (405) 225-9392 From Larry_Hollingsworth at mail.okbu.edu Tue Apr 2 11:48:34 2002 From: Larry_Hollingsworth at mail.okbu.edu (Larry Hollingsworth) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:51 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] Loan Position Message-ID: Hi Folks, We have an opening for a loan coordinator. It is a full-time position which pays $8.00- $8.50 an hour depending on experience. Some tuition benefit for self or family is available as well. If you're interested in knowing more, maybe we can visit at the conference. If you're not attending the conference and want to visit with me, send me a reply and I'll try to touch base with you on Monday when I get back to the office. Thanks, Larry From sgold at osrhe.edu Wed Apr 3 10:37:41 2002 From: sgold at osrhe.edu (Gold, Sheri) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:21:51 2004 Subject: [Oasfaa] Seminar on Non-Resident Alien Tax Issues-May 14th Message-ID: <4499418E013CC64FB4B568929828500402BB90@ms.osrhe.edu> Please mark your calendars for a free seminar on tax issues relating to Non-Resident Aliens. The seminar will be held May 14, 2002, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Since the September 11th crisis the government is working to change and update regulations relating to foreign visitors and students attending classes or working in the United States. Please make plans to attend. Lowell Hancock, an IRS Tax Specialist, will be coming on Tuesday, May 14, 2002, to conduct a seminar to help update the public and private institutions in Oklahoma on the changing regulations. The seminar will be held on the campus of Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 South May Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK, in the College Union, Rooms 2 and 3. Persons who should benefit from the information presented include Business Officers, Bursars, Human Resource Personnel, Foreign Student Relations Offices and Financial Aid Personnel. Please help to spread the word. Further information will be distributed.