Summer 2003 News for the Members of AASFAA    


CONTENTS



Association News
   President's Letter
   BP Conference
   NASFAA Announcements

Committee Reports
   FP & Development
   Awards & Scholarships
   Membership
   Conference
   Awareness & Outreach
   Diversity
   Nominations & Elections

Training
   USA Funds Update
   Membership Training

General Articles
   Compliance Issues
   Web Site Check-Up

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President's Letter

Greetings,

As my year is winding down, I thought I would give you some statistical information about AASFAA this year.

Did you know that:

  • AASFAA has 115 active member institutions and over 400 individual members.
  • 395 individuals took advantage of the two state conferences. 87 were first time attendees. (That’s awesome!)
  • 130 individuals attended our free Membership Training Workshops throughout the state.
  • Four AASFAA scholarships were awarded for our Fall Conference, and four for the Spring Conference, but only three winners were able to attend. Two scholarships were awarded to attend the WASFAA Summer Institute in Idaho.
  • Nine scholarships were given to members to attend WASFAA in Hawaii and did you know that out of those nine people, six of them had never attended a WASFAA Conference before? (I don’t know about you, but that gives me goose bumps.) Some of these individuals have been in financial aid for more than 15 years and they have dedicated a significant amount of their time to serve AASFAA.
  • One person went to the NASFAA Leadership Conference in Washington DC.
  • There were record-breaking sponsorship/vendors at both conferences. The Fall Conference had 28 vendors and the Spring Conference had 32. I am sorry to say we had to turn away a couple of vendors for the Spring Conference because there was no more room.
  • Fiscal Planning and Development raised $73,000 in sponsorships this year.
  • 11 people were nominated for office for 2004-05 year and 67 ballots were received. A little over half of the members voted. That is excellent!!
  • There were 150 volunteers, site coordinators, and regional coordinators through out the state for College Goal Sunday. We helped 2621 students and parents fill out their FAFSAs for next year.
  • 51 volunteers served on the 13 committees.
  • An ad-hoc committee was created to automate the Financial Needs Analysis between the students, tribes, and schools. During the Spring Conference two more tribes joined this project bringing the total to 5 major tribes and 10 schools. These are the test pilots and as this project gets off the ground anyone who wants to use the automated FNA will be added.
  • There were 22 committee chairs/co-chairs. Twelve of them were new chair/co-chairs.
  • There were 10 board members and for 4 of them it was a first time to ever serve on the AASFAA Board.

You can see the tremendous amount of involvement from the members in our association. We can keep records of how much money we have and spend, but we can never keep records of all the in-kind support and the countless hours people give to this association. For those of you who are considering being part of the AASFAA family, please don’t hesitate. JOIN!!! We are always looking for new members to assist the committees. It is a very rewarding experience.

I want to THANK all of you for giving me the opportunity of being your President this year. I also want to THANK my board and committee chairs for all their hard work and wonderful ideas. Everyone went above and beyond the call of duty.

I wish Brad Honious, his board, and committee chairs the best this coming year. I know they will do great.

Gratefully yours,
Pat Peppin
AASFAA President

Board of Directors Committee Chairs
Pat Peppin Ray Ceo Jeff Edris
Kim Naig Melba Moore Pat Chaplin
Brad Honious Grace Smith Judy Smith
Jean M. Russell Mary Ciulei Ryan Chase
Onita Clark Becky Vinzant Pete Leonard
Marilynn Singleton Joni Grover Debbie Golden-Davis
Stacy LaValle Ben Loya April Goff
Terri Eckel Tyler Pruett Kim Naig
Jana Correa-Narcia Terry Yslas Karen Blum
Dan Melosi Shirley Vaden Diana Mateer
  Rhonda Neale Carmen Dominguez
Brad Honious  
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