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Financial Aid Advisory Committee Meeting
September 12, 2024 @ 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
Virtual Event
Agenda-09-12-2024
- Welcome, Introductions and Overview of Meeting Etiquette – Cecelia Jones, Chair
- Consideration of Approval of Minutes from June 6, 2024, FAAC meeting – Cecelia Jones, Chair
- Update: New FAAC Members-Cecelia Jones, Chair
- Update: Prior FAAC Business-Leah Smalley, Senior Policy Director, THECB
- Update: External Relations – John Wyatt, Senior Director, THECB
- Discussion: Financial Aid Priority Application Date-Charles Contero-Puls, Assistant Commissioner, THECB
- Presentation: Loan Repayment Programs- Maria Serna, Manager II Loan Repayment Programs, THECB
- Update: Texas Association for State Financial Aid Administrators (TASFAA) – Denise Welch, TASFAA President
- Update: Financial Aid Operations Subcommittee – Beth Tolan, Data Collection Subcommittee Chair
- Update: High School District – Lisa Schoenbrun, El Paso ISD, Erica Ramos, Pharr- San Juan-Alamo ISD, and Sandra Moore, Amarillo ISD
- Presentation: The Psychology of Borrowing-Melet Leafgreen, Past Chair and Lindsay Partridge, Sr. Debt Management Advisor, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Update: TASFA Subcommittee – Heather Fountain, TASFA Subcommittee Chair
- Update: Legislative Subcommittee – Scott Lapinski, Legislative Subcommittee Chair
- Presentation: Bringing Trauma-Informed Practices to Financial Aid Office-Christina Tangalakis, Interim Director, Wake Forest University
- Update: Office of Student Financial Aid Programs – DeChà Reid, Director III, THECB and Leah Smalley, Senior Policy Director, THECB
- Discussion Topic: Bridge the GAPS (Goals, Achievements, Progress and Solutions)- Committee Members
- Future Meetings/Reminders/Topic Recommendations for future meetings – Cecelia Jones, Chair
- Adjournment – Cecelia Jones, Chair
Meeting Minutes