Fall Conference Plans Finalized
By Don Buehrer, Nelnet, TASFAA Fall Conference Committee Chair

Plans are nearly finalized for the TASFAA Fall Conference, being held in El Paso on October 5-7. Sessions are being offered in the following areas:

• Strategic Enrollment Strategy: What Should I Be Doing?
• Effective Entrance and Exit Counseling Sessions
• Imaging
• Federal Law and Financial Aid and Scholarships: A Framework for Evaluating
• Diversity-Related Programs
• Multi-Generational Staff and Today’s Students
• Federal update
• Understanding Tax Forms
• R2T4 Basics and Beyond
• Student’s Perspective on Financial Debt
• The PURR Principle
• Nontraditional Term-based Programs and Delivering Title IV Aid
• Legislative/ Congressional update
• Understanding the Need Analysis Method
• Taking Care of Your Health
• Financial Aid Awareness via Media Interviews
• Credit Reporting and Fraud Prevention
• Best Practices for Student Employment
• Immigrant Students and HB 1403
• Default Aversion Plan Assessment Tool
• The Illusive Red Folder
• How to Become Organized/Time Management
• FERPA/GLBA/ID Theft
• Planning YOUR Finances for the Future
• Outreach Programs
• Pell Recalculations for Term-Based Programs with Compressed Courses
• The Magic of Situational Leadership
• 4-Year Private School Forum
• 4-Year Public School Forum
• Proprietary School Forum
• 2-Year School Forum
• Graduate and Professional School Forum
• Risk Assessment
• TASFAA Successes

Activities will be held both evenings and will include a Casino Night and a Mexican Fiesta Evening, El Paso Style.

As of this writing, the Camino Real Hotel is sold out. The overflow hotel is the Holiday Inn Express (915-544-3333).

Additional information will be released to the TASFAA listserv as it becomes available.

Please feel free to contact Don Buehrer (817-581-4324, don.buehrer@nelnet.net), if you have any questions.