NYSFAAA Region III
November 2, 2012
LeMoyne College
Welcome: John View started the meeting at 10:11 on behalf of the region. He reminded everyone on September 2011 he handed out shopping sheet and said it should be on our radar. He welcomed interaction and conversation about this topic.
Shopping Sheet/Award Letter: Carlos Adrian from Syracuse University went over the time line, design and implementation of the shopping sheet.
- COA
- Grants and scholarships
- Student loans
- Net cost
All students receiving financial aid will receive a shopping sheet and will have varying templates on campus vs. of campus. John View went over the SUNY model which is different than the Dept. of Educations. John also went over the SUNY task force regarding the shopping sheet and believes we should have flexibility. SUNY would like to use the shopping sheet as an award letter.
Business Meeting: Kathy Flaherty started the business meeting at 11:16. She welcomed and thanked Kelly from LeMoyne for arranging us to meet. We had new faces so we went around the room and did introductions. Kathy passed out a NYSFAAA organizational chart for 2012-2013. Scott Atkinson has looked a t each function of each office and some were merged.
Executive Council: Most of the updates were given at the October 2012 conference.
- Conference 2012-2013 will be in Long Island on October 14-16. It will be
a hand on conference, encouraging laptops etc.
- Web design update, need to register in order to post on blog. Want members to use it to post information/events.
- Steve Dwyer completed the 2009-2010 audits; 2010-2011 will be complete in December and then will start on the 2011-2012.
- Scott Atkinson is looking to pump up volunteers and mentors in NYSFAAA
- Howard Leslie stated about 6,000 people were trained through webinars.
o Howard moved to Florida
College Goal Sunday: LaSonya
- 5 year contract ended and have to apply again and will be notified by November 15.
- Syracuse school district picked by Dept of Education for a FAFSA completion project. They want to see how many students complete the FAFSA.
- We are already doing a lot of the things the Department of Education recommends
Counselor Workshop: Kevin Sapio
- November 16th, Holiday Inn Binghamton
- November 19th, Sheraton in Syracuse
- Need more volunteers for regional table
Conference Chatter:
- New York State default rate below national average, overall at 7%
- Looking at having 6 meetings instead of 3 meetings for executive council, 3 being phone meetings
- Talk about a bus going to Long Island Conference
- Rose Hartson won the rising star award
Treasure:
- Balance is $2802.42
- $150 for basket
- $150 for scholarship fund
- Region III is one that got chosen for 10-11 audit and did great
No State Update
Respectfully submitted,
Sarah Hicks
Regional Secretary
Member Present
Colleen Conroy, TC3
Tammy Oliver, TC3
Jim Janke, TC3
Kathy Flaherty, SUNY Oswego
Annette Broski, Mohawk Valley CC
Jackie Darquea, Cayuga CC
Judy Meladin, Cayuga CC
Danielle Griggs, Say Yes To Education
Lindsay Martin, Cornell
Rose Hartson, USC The Business College
Jennie Hoffman, SUNY Oswego
Kelly Henry, LeMoyne
Dawn Langdon, HWS
Katrina Delgrosso, College Board
Pat Johnson, SU
Laura Worley, First Marblehead
Darrin Rooker, NY Chiropractic College
Kevin Shults, Syracuse
Sharon Halpin, LeMoyne
Amy Connors, SU
LaSonya Griggs, SUNY Upstate Medical
Mike Pede, SUNY Upstate Medical
Kevin Sapio, SUNY Upstate Medical
Sanaa El-Amir – SU
Sam Veeder, Nazareth College
Laura Helmich, PNC
John View, ESF
Carlos Adrian, SU
Bill Cheetham, Lemoyne