Conference News
Thanks to SASFAA's new web site,
registration for the 2004 conference is available on-line this
year! Please go to www.sasfaa.org and register for the
conference now.
Additional information about the conference has been posted,
including a tentative agenda and travel information, so that you
can start making your plans now to join your colleagues in
Birmingham February 15 - 18, 2004. You will not want to miss
it!
Zita Barree
SASFAA 2004 Conference Chair
As financial
aid administrators, we are devoted to helping our students
obtain an education that will allow them to reach their goals
and to follow their dreams. Every day we provide our students
with “Access – the Key to Brighter Futures” and we invite you to
join us in the “Magic City” on February 15 – 18, for the 2004
SASFAA Conference to do just that.
Our
conference will begin with the SASFAA Community Service project
– providing “access” through FAFSA Workshops for high school
seniors who live in the Birmingham area. If your school budget
and travel plans will allow you to be in Birmingham on Saturday,
please plan to join the Diversity Committee in helping at these
workshops as it promises to be one of the most rewarding
professional and personal experiences of the conference.
As for
educational experiences, the Conference Committee worked
diligently to develop informative sessions that will appeal to
the new, as well as the not-so-new financial aid administrator.
Sessions will range from the beginner level with the New Aid
Officer’s Workshop to the seasoned professional level with the
School Roundtable for Senior Administrators. A multitude of
sessions that fall between these two experience levels will also
be offered.
From a
cultural standpoint, our host city has much to offer SASFAA as
well. The President’s Reception will be held at the Birmingham
Museum of Art and the Diversity Committee has scheduled an
informative speaker coupled with a tour of the Civil Rights
Institute.
The 2004
SASFAA Conference promises to be educational, enlightening, and
entertaining. Please visit the SASFAA website at
www.sasfaa.org for all the conference details including
hotel information, session details and conference registration.
We’ll see you in Birmingham!
Submitted by Jolene Burke,
EdAmerica
Elections
News
Nominations, Nominations,
calling for all Nominations!!!!!!!!!
It is that time of the year where
the NASFAA Nominations and Elections committee seeks candidates
to run for Chair-Elect, Representatives-At-Large and Nominations
and Elections Representatives.
My tenure on the Nominations and
Elections Committee runs out at the end of this year and thus
SASFAA will need nominees to be presented on the slate. It is a
wonderful opportunity to get involved on the National level and
meet your colleagues from around the nation. The same is true
for the Rep-at-Large positions. Both require a two-year
commitment.
The Chair-Elect works closely with
the current Chair to prepare themselves for representing our
National Association at all functions and meetings. It is a
three-year commitment, BUT on of the most rewarding ones you
will ever experience.
SO let me hear from you!!!!!! Let
me give some great SASFAA names to the committee for these
positions. Complete the attached form TODAY!!!!!! We are blessed
to have so many great folks in our region, so it should be NO
PROBLEM getting me some names, RIGHT?!
I have attached the info from the
NASFAA site.
NOMINATIONS
SOUGHT FOR 2004-05 NASFAA ELECTED OFFICES
http://www.NASFAA.org/publications/2003/n2004nominations112403.html
NASFAA invites nominations for the
2004-2005 program year for the positions of National Chair-Elect
(who becomes National Chair for 2005-2006), four national
Representatives-at-Large to the Board of Directors, and three
members of the Nominations and Elections Committee representing
SASFAA, RMASFAA, and WASFAA. This article explains the
nomination and election process and informs potential candidates
of the roles and responsibilities that come with each office.
The deadline for receipt of nominations is January 16, 2004. See
http://www.NASFAA.org/publications/2003/n2004nominations112403.html
for complete details.
Janet D. Sain , Provost/Financial Aid Director , ECPI College of
Technology
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