WASFAA - Western Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators

October/November 2000

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	CONTENTS

		President's Report Editorial Update Regional Update Committee Report Training Features Are You Sure... Research Suggestions Federal Update State Updates ALASFAA: Alaska AASFAA: Arizona IASFAA: Idaho NAFAA: Nevada OASFAA: Oregon PacFAA: Pacific Islands WFAA: Washington Feature Grad/Professional Who's News/Other Feature Unique Goals

VOLUME XXXI NUMBER 2 WASFAA Editorial Policy The WASFAA Newsletter is published for members of the Western Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, a non-profit organization for financial aid professionals. Newsletter contributors make every attempt to represent information accurately. WASFAA is not responsible for misrepresentation of facts by articles published herein. The deadline for receipt of articles is: Issue Deadline December/January November 3, 2000 February/March January 5, 2001 April/May March 2, 2001 It is understood that Letters to the Editors must be signed and may be condensed or edited as necessary. Articles can be sent to Becky Cady via e-mail: rebeccacady@earthlink.net Editors: Judy Saling salingj@oit.edu Becky Cady Fax: 503-247-7581 Phone: 503-247-7577 rebeccacady@earthlink.net

President's Report
by Doug Severs, Idaho State University

It is time to hit the road as WASFAA President! I have booked my flights to the Washington and Alaska state meetings and will be booking a flight to the Nevada/Arizona meeting. I will get to ride with my office staff to the Idaho meeting... it however will not be a short drive as we will be heading to Post Falls from Pocatello. It is almost a ten-hour drive and the quickest route is through Montana! Visiting each of the state meetings is one of the most gratifying aspects of being your President and I look forward to meeting many of you on these trips.

The Executive Council will be meeting October 30th and 31st in Phoenix, actually Scottsdale. We are meeting at what will be one our future conference hotels the Double Tree Paradise Valley. This meeting allows us evaluate the progress of the WASFAA committees and determine how the NASFAA/ WASFAA training is progressing. We, hopefully, will have the new Treasurer-Elect position filled and new budget period to construct. The Executive Council voted to put to membership a change in bylaws to move the budget year from May 1 through April 30 to January 1 through December 31. The will allow a budget that will entail most of our cost and income and committees will generally not face a budget split between fiscal years. If you are in the Phoenix/ Scottsdale area feel free to join us.

Are Your Policies Zipped Up?
Actually, a financial aid office not having its policies zipped up gave me my start in student financial aid (it also gave the financial aid director a new career in the admissions office!). In 1973 I was strolling out of the business administration building at the school where I was completing my final year of undergraduate education and noticed a one-page job posting. The posting was from the school's financial aid office and they were looking for someone to monitor students on campus earnings and develop off campus job openings for students. Monitoring on campus earnings was a part time job created to take care of a program review finding. Back in those times the need analysis computation considered students earnings during the academic period as a resource. The problem was that the financial aid office had not checked for student on campus earnings when they awarded the need based assistance or did not check when a student was hired to see if they had a need based award. When the program reviewers compared the schools payroll and the financial aid awards, they came up with an over $100,000 finding. I was then hired for $1.90 an hour to make sure we did not again have an over $100,000 finding! And after 27 years I am still trying to prevent program review finding.