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Financial Aid Info & Updates for Graduate Advisers
Darcy Keller, Assistant Director in the Office of Student Financial Aid, will discuss financial aid requirements and procedures for graduate students. Are students who are completing undergraduate or graduate courses that are required for admission to a graduate program eligible for financial aid? What kinds of non-departmental fellowships or loans are available to graduate students? How can you best help your graduate students with financial need figure out how to fund their education?
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Financial Aid Info & Updates for Undergraduate Advisers
Darcy Keller, Assistant Director in the Office of Student Financial Aid, will share basic reminders plus important updates to the Satisfactory Progress guidelines for financial aid recipients. Bring your questions, and learn to help your students plan ahead for financial aid eligibility. Sample topics: What does the FAFSA do? What is the basic financial aid formula? How do scholarships, awards and prizes affect financial aid? What forms are we (advisers) being asked to sign and why? What’s new about Satisfactory Progress for financial aid recipients?
Transfer Appointments During Advising & Orientation: Best Practices
Transfer students start arriving for Advising & Orientation this summer on July 13. Do you wonder what all they do while they're here? How best to help them when they are sent to you for an advising appointment? Do you remember how to flag transfer courses in EARS and when you have the authority to do so? Namura Nkeze (First Year Programs), Megan McConnell (UAA Advising) and Cynthia Anderson (CHID) will lead a discussion of how best to help incoming transfer students.
Related documents: Program Brochure (MS Publisher format) | The "Intake" Transfer Appointment | Workshop notes | Advising Notes | Welcome packet from Admissions
Related Organizations
- Off the Record: Ideas for Blowing Off Steam, March 2008
- National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)
- National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)
- National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE)
- Undergraduate Academic Advising Council (UAAC)
- UW Association of Professional Advisers & Counselors (APAC)
- UW Professional Staff Organization (PSO)
