The Financial Aid Track contains sessions designed specifically for financial aid, student accounts, and bursar’s office managers and staff, delivering practical tips and techniques to help you use your Campus Management products more efficiently and effectively.

What’s New in CampusVue’s Financial Aid Presenter: Bob Gilgore, Greg Lotz,
Cliff Smallwood

Learn how changes for the 2008/2009 Award year will be handled in CampusVue, the details of increased award levels for Pell, enhancements to ACG, SMART and others.  Learn how CampusVue will be modified to accommodate the latest bill, CCRAA, the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007.  Additionally hear an overview of enhancements implemented within the Financial Aid solution over the past year.

Enhancing your Financial Aid Processes in CampusVue
Presenter: Bob Gilgore

This session will take you on a tour of improved CampusVue and CampusPortal enhancements that will streamline your Financial Aid processes.  Learn how to increase your Financial Aid effectiveness for your students and staff through exposure to tools within the Financial Aid zone as well as with Contact Manager.

Round Table Discussion: Award Criteria and Management of Non-Title IV Funds
Presenter: Greg Lotz with round table guests (TBD)

Join us for an open round table discussion to share best practices for Non-Title IV fund management.  Learn how the CampusVue FAGL functionality can track fund levels.  We will explore possible enhancement of this element of Financial Aid in CampusVue and are particularly interested in how you, our clients are administering these funds. 

Breaking the Barrier between Admissions and Financial Aid in CampusVue: Fostering a Team Concept
Presenter: Greg Lotz with guest speaker (TBD)

Often an area of significant friction in campus operations, bringing these two critical departments closer through enhanced communications and team building can improve student/prospect engagement, conversions and overall institutional ROI.

Automating Financial Aid:  The Next Generation of CampusVue Financial Aid
Presenter:  Greg Lotz

Get an inside look at the breakthrough re-engineering underway of CampusVue Financial Aid.  This R&D project, arriving in phases starting this July, will reduce steps in processing aid by fully automating DOE reporting and CommonLine file transfer for ELM, Sallie Mae and others. New, easy to use interfaces will help users harness an elegant exception processing engine with customizable notifications that speed resolution and resending of data to third parties.  We will also look forward, to describe the roadmap of the product encompassing eSignature and eForms solutions.