The Daily Bulletin Archive

Please join the Teaching and Learning Center for the workshop “Being Mindful of Financial Aid Implications When Advising Students” on Friday, February 21, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in Chase Hall 109. Presented by Sara Reese, assistant director of the Academic Commons; Linda Rainforth, associate director of financial aid; and Cyndie Syracuse, program aide in the Student Accounts Office.

Each semester roughly 1,000 Buffalo State College students are notified that they have either lost their financial aid eligibility or are given a warning that they could lose their financial aid eligibility if their academic standing does not improve. Faculty and staff members who advise students can help guide them toward smart academic choices to keep them on track to retain or regain financial aid eligibility,* which is vital for increasing student persistence to graduation. This workshop will address the relationship between academics and financial aid and how those who advise students can help them maintain their financial aid eligibility. 

At this workshop, attendees will learn the following: 

•  What information to consider before advising a student to add, drop, or repeat a course or increase or decrease a course load to ensure that his or her financial aid eligibility is not at risk. 
• How and when Buffalo State reviews academic progress and determines financial aid eligibility.

Get your financial aid questions answered and be a part of this campuswide dialogue. 

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

*Note: The policy on Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid Eligibility is different from other academic policies on campus that govern a student's eligibility to continue taking courses. A student may be eligible to take courses at Buffalo State (as an academic recovery student, or as a probationary student) but still be ineligible to receive financial aid. For additional information on the Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), please visit the Financial Aid website.