How Colleges Can Start Offering Title IV Financial Aid Programs: Gaining Candidacy or Full Accreditation Is Just the Beginning
Your Board of Trustees has determined that your institution should offering Title IV financial aid, but many questions remain. Examples of such questions are: Are... Read more.
Federal Student Aid Myths That Christian Colleges Believe
We are frequently asked, “How will my institution be negatively affected by participating in the Higher Education Act Title IV student financial assistance programs?”... Read more.
Title IV Check-Up: What’s Your State of Health?
As you move forward in 2018, you may have already started to act on personal health or financial issues, but not items of concern in your institution’s Federal... Read more.
Securing Records Before the Storm
Are you prepared? Have you been adequately securing records? Do you have a disaster recovery plan? What would happen to you, your institution, and your students... Read more.
Six Months into the New Administration: What’s the Prognosis for Higher Education?
“Whenever there is a transition to a new president and new political party, there is always a delay in new policy guidance and development, as a new administration... Read more.
Dangers in the Managing of Title IV Programs
Recent audits and U.S. Department of Education program reviews reveal several areas which if mishandled or overlooked can cause problems for institutions. In our... Read more.
Trump Administration and FAFSA: What to Expect
Having survived federal financial aid transactions through eight presidents, I offer my thoughts on the ninth—President Donald Trump—and how his administration... Read more.
11 Symptoms of Financial Aid Office Trouble
Overseeing the financial aid office is a daunting task with many possible points of failure and a whole new vocabulary. When the office is not running at optimum... Read more.
13 Audit Findings That Will Bring Any Christian School to Its Knees
People with good academic ideas often don’t consult their financial aid officer before beginning their new venture. That oversight can cost the school and the... Read more.
Unusual Enrollment History Selection Process to Change for 2016–17
Students are not only smart, they can be industriously unethical too. Some have learned how to attend a school just long enough to get financial aid and then leave... Read more.