Training and Workshops

Requests to host a Tuesday @ 2 training can be made by any current member or committee. The training committee request that the following steps be followed when requesting a training session and date.
1. Please check the date on the EASFAA calendar to verify if the date is free of other activities.
2. Please have requested date, session topic/title, description, presenter, and presenter bio information ready upon requesting the training.
3. Complete the Training Session Request Form found below. Once submitted the Tuesday @ 2 chairs will review your request and be in touch.

Training Session Request Form

Professional Judgement

This session is hosted by PRASFAA and open to all. EASFAA membership would be required in order to take the credential exam.

Date: Wednesday, December 11
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Hilton Ponce Golf & Casino Resort, Ponce, PR

This session will provide you with the meaning, purpose, and underlying principles of professional judgement (PJ); areas of financial aid administration to which PJ is applied; and general documentation requirements applicable when exercising PJ.

The key concepts you will learn in this lesson include:

Statutory authority
Definition of PJ
Unusual circumstances
Special circumstances
Purpose and principles of PJ
PJ policies and procedures
PJ triggers
Areas of PJ; areas where PJ does not apply
Role of PJ documentation; types of PJ documentation
PJ during a disaster, emergency, or economic downturn

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Campus-based Programs

This session is hosted by Tri-State and is open to all. EASFAA membership would be required in order to take the credential exam.

Date: Monday, November 18
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Live! Casino and Hotel, 7002 Arundel Mills Circle #7777, Hanover, MD 21076

This session will teach you how to differentiate between the campus-based programs; and identify provisions common to each campus-based program.

The key concepts you will learn in this lesson:

• Application process;
• Matching requirements;
• Transfer of funds between programs;
• Use of funds for independent and parttime students;
• Carry-forward and carry-back option;
• Administrative cost allowance (ACA); and
• Underutilization of allocation.