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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Greetings from the SWASFAA Conference Committee!</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Our annual conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort in San Antonio, Texas November 14-16, 2012. Our theme is “Come Together Leave Stronger”. This year, we hope to offer best practice panel sessions in addition to the sessions that will be given by the Department of Education and NASFAA. These sessions will cover hot topics such as R2T4, SAP, Verification, Default Management and Gainful Employment. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Our goal to put together a panel of speakers from various schools (2 year, 4 year, public, private, proprietary) and give the panel an opportunity to share their implementation or best practices in facilitating these programs. We hope to have 3-4 panelists per topic. If you are interested in participating as a panelist on one of these topics, please contact our conference committee members as follows:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>R2T4: John Jefferson at</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <a href="mailto:jjeffers@sautech.edu"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>jjeffers@sautech.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>SAP: Jason Marrujo at</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <a href="mailto:jason.marrujo@okstate.edu"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>jason.marrujo@okstate.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Verification: Erika Cox at</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <a href="mailto:erika.cox@utsa.edu"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>erika.cox@utsa.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Default Management: Michelle Lukesh at</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <a href="mailto:michello@ad.nmsu.edu"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>michello@ad.nmsu.edu</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Gainful Employment: Leatrice Latimore at</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <a href="mailto:llatimor@suno.edu"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>llatimor@suno.edu</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <a href="mailto:erika.cox@utsa.edu"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>erika.cox@utsa.edu</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>. Thank you!</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Jason R. Marrujo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Assistant Director, Student Financial Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>1801 East 4th Street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Okmulgee, OK 74447<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>jason.marrujo@okstate.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>office: (918) 293-5288<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>fax: (918) 293-4650<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=99 height=74 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD5938.C4B04760" alt="Description: cid:image001.jpg@01C9ABC2.EC73D8B0"></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>