Winter 2008 Online Publication    




TASFAA Regional Training
By Liza Blazer, TASFAA President

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope that your new year is off to a great start. I know everyone is busy with the start of the spring semester, but I wanted to send out a quick note about regional training coming your way.

For those of you that thought we forgot about the NASFAA Decentralized Training, we didn't, we just had to postpone it until spring. We have combined the Fall Decentralized Training and the Spring Regional Training into one training session. We had originally planned to offer some in the fall and the rest in the spring, but due to many changes in the committee, we had to postpone all of the training until the spring.

I think it is going to be an awesome training on Counseling Students and Families: Tackling Financial Issues. This proves to be a very timely topic and very informative.

We will be hosting the training in the 10 different sites listed below. Online registration will be available soon as we finalize all of the information. Also find below a tentative agenda for the day. It will be jam-packed full of information, so don't miss it. The cost of the training is $25 and the materials will be $70. Please wait to purchase the training materials from TASFAA since we have already ordered them. If you have ordered and purchased them from NASFAA already, then bring the materials with you to the training session.

Tentative Agenda
8:00-8:30 Check-in and Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:45 Opening and Introduction
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-11:15 Cost of Attendance Development and Communication
Noon-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45 Addressing the Students' and Families' Financial Concerns
1:45-2:30 Effective Loan Counseling (Part 1)
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:15 Effective Loan Counseling (Part 2)
3:15-4:00 Ethical Issues and Counseling Strategies
4:00-4:15 Closing Session
Locations
February 27 Lee College/Houston
February 28 Tarrant County Community College/Dallas
February 29 University of the Incarnate Word/San Antonio
March 5 Delmar College/Corpus Christi
March 6 Collin County Community College/Plano
March 13 Lubbock Christian University/Lubbock
March 14 Angelo State/San Angelo
March 14 El Paso Community College/El Paso
March 26 Texas State Technical College Harlingen/Harlingen
March 27 Texas State Technical College/Waco

If you should have any questions regarding the training, please feel free to contact me at lisa.blazer@utsa.edu. Please be on the lookout for more information as we get closer to the training times and look for the online registration sometime this month.

Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing some of you in training.