Local Area Awareness & Outreach
How has TASFAA impacted your area? We need to know!
Submitted by Lou Murray, Co-Chair, Association Activities and Resources Committee

Summer is here – a time to look back on the last academic year and prepare for the next. Orientations are constant throughout college campuses. High School students move up a notch as they get closer and closer to their High School Graduation. There are all kind of activities going on throughout the state, taking place in order to prepare high school students and their families for college. With all that is going on in your area – TASFAA needs to know!

The TASFAA Association Activities and Resources Committee was created in order to identify and acknowledge the various outreach and early awareness efforts accomplished by the Association’s members and associate members. This data is shared throughout the TASFAA membership, in order that we be better informed of the activities that are taking place in specific areas of Texas and the territories that seem to be forgotten. Further, this data will be used to inform and educate the community and government entities of the Association’s commitment to outreach and public awareness.

The committee is urging you to utilize the TRAINetwork (TASFAA Resources Activities Instructional Network) as your way of communicating to TASFAA about the activities in your area. Grade school events, high school nights, financial aid awareness events, parent nights and other types of activities are listed and mapped. The system allows all member institutions to view such activities by state territory, county and zip code, and also provides a brief detail of the event’s purpose, audience turnout, and comments measuring the success following the event. This information is useful throughout various conversations that take place between TASFAA members, as well as community, state and federal leaders, as our industry demands for their continued attention and support.

The TRAINetwork can be located at www.financialaid.ttu.edu/TASFAA/train.htm. Submitting an event or activity is easy and is accessible by anyone associated with TASFAA and the financial aid community. Portions of the form are pre-populated and many options are presented when submitting the event to make the site easy to navigate and as functional as possible. Updates to the TRAINetwork remain constant as the committee is working to make the system more efficient and user-friendly. For more information about the TRAINetwork you may email the committee at AssociationActivities@tasfaa.org.