WASFAA Research Grant
WASFAA has funded a research grant program to help facilitate research activities in areas of interest to WASFAA and its membership. Grants are awarded to assist recipients in covering project costs, including temporary personnel, printing, postage, data entry, computer time, and preparation of papers and reports. Grants are not intended to provide a salary or stipend for the grant recipient. WASFAA members are eligible to apply, as are non-members as long as a WASFAA member sponsors them. Grants are not awarded for program start-up expenses. Projects that involve experimental activities and new initiatives should emphasize evaluation of program effectiveness. Go to www.wasfaa.org/docs/research/intro.html for more information about the grant process and the link to the grant application forms. The fall grant application deadline is October 15th and the spring deadline is March 1St.

WASFAA Research Assistance
The WASFAA Research Committee has constructed a Research Resource Table to assist Financial Aid Administrators with the many research questions that land on their desks. A great deal of the information for the research table was earlier listed in NASFAA’s Monitor. We have expanded the information on the table and added additional resources. We are always looking for additional information for the table. If you know a source that we should include please contact us research@wasfaa.org. The link to the WASFAA Research Table is www.wasfaa.org/docs/research/table.html.

WASFAA Research Ideas
We like to survey WASFAA membership on different financial aid related topics or on basic information on how we run our financial aid operations. We are always looking for suggestions for a short survey of WASFAA membership. If you have any suggestions, please contact us at research@wasfaa.org. If we submit the survey, we will have the results published in the WASFAA Newsletter and give you the credit.