[Oasfaa] Spring 2009 OTAG Awards - Approaching Deadline

[Joyner, Shiela]

Attached for your information is a spreadsheet that reflects each
participating institution's OTAG 2008-09 awards disbursed as of 2/27/09
compared with 2007-08 end of year awards disbursed.  Institutions where
no spring 2009 award claims have been paid by OTAG are identified with
"fall only" in the right margin of the attached spreadsheet.  If your
institution needs a pre-populated Award Claim Form to assist you in
claiming spring awards for your eligible students, please send a message
to reports at otag.org.
Reminder of approaching Spring 2009 OTAG deadlines: 
Friday, March 6, 2009 -- Each participating institution must have
submitted their INITIAL spring semester award claim. The president or
chief executive officer of any institution not submitting an initial
claim by March 6 will be notified in writing.  
It is important that ALL participating institutions cooperate by
submitting the majority of their Spring 2009 OTAG award claims by the
March 6 initial deadline. Please be mindful that the earlier
institutions complete their Spring 2009 OTAG disbursement activities,
the sooner we can determine and announce if funds will be available to
award in Summer 2009. 
Friday, April 10, 2009 -- No further requests for awards or for
increases to individual awards already disbursed for the Spring 2009
semester will be accepted after this date. It is our hope that this late
in the semester, any remaining award claims submitted will be limited to
a few "clean up" requests. After April 10, requests for exceptions due
to extraordinary circumstances may be granted only upon approval of the
Chancellor for Higher Education and must be submitted in writing to the
Chancellor.  Please be mindful that waiting until April 10 to submit
OTAG award claims does not automatically extend the time the institution
has to complete the disbursement of funds and submit their final
reporting to the OTAG office.
Friday, April 24, 2009 -- Institutions shall notify the State Regents of
any pending refunds that have not already been returned to the State
Regents. 
May 1, 2009 -- The State Regents shall announce if any OTAG funds are
available for awards in the summer 2009 semester. If funds are
available, the State Regents shall also announce awarding criteria at
that time.
We appreciate your assistance in delivering OTAG funds to Oklahoma's
eligible students and in adhering to the set deadlines for the
betterment of the delivery process for all participating institutions,
and most especially for the students who benefit from the program.
 <<OTAG Compare 0708_0809_022709.xls>> 
Shiela Joyner
Director, Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant Program
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
PO Box 108850
Oklahoma City, OK 73101-8850
Internet:  sjoyner at otag.org
Voice:  405.225.9378 or Toll Free 877.662.6231

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/oasfaa/attachments/20090227/983d18f7/attachment.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OTAG Compare 0708_0809_022709.xls
Type: application/vnd.ms-excel
Size: 29184 bytes
Desc: OTAG Compare 0708_0809_022709.xls
Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/oasfaa/attachments/20090227/983d18f7/attachment.xls