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NASFAA
News
It is time to start to prepare for the next reauthorization
of the Title IV Programs. This message comes to you on behalf
of the NASFAA Federal Issues Committee.
We seek your help to identify additional issues to explore
this time around the reauthorization block. The task is
really quite direct. Please work with your membership to
review NASFAA comments at www.nasfaa.org/publications/2001/gfedupconsolresponse071701.html
and www.nasfaa.org/publications/2001/gfedup2ndsubmission082201.html
that were submitted to Fed.Up, as well as the current compilation
of responses at http://edworkforce.house.gov/issues/107th/education/fedup/regschart.htm.
Think creatively about these issues to identify any others
that might be visited by Congress during the reauthorization
process. Please forward your state's comments the Federal
Issues Committee at govtaffairs@nasfaa.org.
NASFAA's RTF has a daunting task before it, to gather and
harness the issues to be addressed. The Federal Issues Committee
(represented on the RTF by Mark Bandre' of Ohio Wesleyan
University) is trying to help insure that the RTF has all
the facts it needs. Submit your association's comments to
NASFAA by February 28.
If you have questions, please contact FIC/RTF committee
member Mark Bandre' at mabandre@owu.edu
or Marty Guthrie (NASFAA staff liaison) at guthriem@nasfaa.org.
Take a few minutes and forward your responses to NASFAA.
Things won't change unless we get involved.
USA
Funds accepts applications for $3-million scholarship program
Submitted by Kathy Bixby,
USA Funds Services, 866-497-USAF (866-497-8723), ext. 3259
USA Funds® has announced that applications now are
available for its $3-million national scholarship program
to assist college students who demonstrate financial need.
USA Funds will award $1,500 scholarships to qualified full-time
undergraduate and graduate students and $750 scholarships
to qualified half-time undergraduate students for the 2002-2003
academic year.
To qualify for USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships™,
applicants must be enrolled or plan to enroll in coursework
at an accredited two- or four-year college, university,
vocational/technical school or graduate school, and must
come from families with annual adjusted gross household
incomes of $35,000 or less. Up to 50 percent of the scholarship
awards will be targeted to applicants who are members of
an ethnic minority group or have a documented physical disability.
To qualify for an award, applications for the USA Funds
Access to Education Scholarships must be postmarked by April
15, 2002. For eligibility information and to download an
application, visit USA Funds' Web site at www.usafunds.org.
For additional information, contact Citizens' Scholarship
Foundation of America Inc., which administers the scholarship
program on behalf of USA Funds, at 800-537-4180, or send
e-mail to scholarship@usafunds.org.
NELnet/UNIPAC
The Utah Higher Education Assistance Authority (UHEAA)
recently received notice announcing National Education Loan
Network (NELnet) as the official name for the student loan
organization formed through the mergers of ClassCredit,
GuaranTec, InTuition, MELMAC, NHELP, and UNIPAC. Effective
January 1, 2002, NELnet will be the official name of UNIPAC.
In the transition, the combined name NELnet/UNIPAC may be
referenced in some communications.
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