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Please join us for the professional development workshop “Meeting Students Where They Are: Being Mindful of Financial Aid Implications When Advising Students,” presented by Sara Reese, assistant director of the Academic Commons; Linda Rainforth, associate director of financial aid; and Cynthia Syracuse, program aide in the Student Accounts Office, on Tuesday, October 22, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. in Chase Hall 109.

Each semester, roughly 1,000 Buffalo State College students are either notified that they have lost their financial aid eligibility or 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 smarter 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.

Workshop participants will learn

• 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, and
• 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.

Light snacks will be provided. Please register through the Workshop Registration System.