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Tip of the Week The all-too familiar feeling of working in financial aid The following feelings may be all too familiar to you: your heart starts racing, you feel the tension rising in your neck and shoulders, or your heart starts beating rapidly. With all the changes and confusion with financial aid recently, it’s probably

Tip of the Week Embrace your fears An audit finding. A missed deadline. A misplaced decimal point. Now those are some frights that will really chill you to the bone. These nightmares haunt the bravest of financial aid professionals. If you work in financial aid, you know there’s enough real-world scares to last you a

Tip of the Week Happy Financial Aid Day 2026 Happenstance. It’s how many of us ended up working in financial aid. As high school students, most of us did not list working in financial aid as a future career goal. It may have been a work study position in college that became a full-time opportunity

Tip of the Week Just give it time As years go by, a lot changes with time. And, yet there are great works of art, literature, or entertainment that have endured and are relevant to us today. Take, for example, the 70’s sitcom, Barney Miller. Okay, I know – some critics probably don’t include it

Tip of the Week Dealing with student loan nonrepayment It’s not just a financial aid office issue. While higher education institutions are dealing with recruitment, enrollment and retention on the front end, student loan default is sneaking up on the back end. The FY 2023 default rates were just released last week and remain low