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23rd Annual SFARN Conference
Providence Biltmore, Providence, RI
June 22-24, 2006
The following lists all presentations made during the 23rd Annual SFARN conference. If presenters made their materials available via Powerpoint or PDF files, they are provided here. To access the presentation, please click on the title. If you have questions regarding individual presentations, especially if materials are not included here, please contact the presenters. If you have other questions regarding the conference or experience technical difficulties, please contact Jennifer Engle.
THURSDAY JUNE 22, 2006
- State Curricular Framework Tests and Merit Scholarships in Massachusetts (.pdf)
Donald E. Heller and Jason DeRousie The Pennsylvania State University
- Retaking the ACT: Merit-based State Aid, College Enrollment and Retention, and Migration (.ppt)
Michel-Ange Pantal and Mark Ehlert University of Missouri-Columbia
- Federal, Institutional, and Student Costs in Higher Education (.pdf)
C. Jeff Appel, Jeff Weinstein, Susan Chin, and Debra Prescott, U.S. Government Accountability Office
- State Task Force Initiatives to Increase Need-Based Financial Aid to Low-Income Students (.ppt)
Lois M. Johnson, Pennsylvania State System of Higher; Jamie Merisotis, Institute for Higher Education Policy; Karen Paulson, NCHEMS; and Patricia Yaeger, AES/PHEAA
- Federal Tuition Tax Credits and Deductions: Who Benefits? (.pdf)
Lutz Berkner, MPR Associates
- Exploring Financial Aid Knowledge and the Impact of Financial Aid Awards among Adult Learners in Community Colleges (.ppt)
Kimberly R. Rogers, SUNY-Buffalo
- Financial Aid Packages and Student Persistence and Degree Attainment in Florida (.pdf)
Donald E. Heller and Jason DeRousie The Pennsylvania State University
- Demonstration of NASSGAP Annual Survey Query Tool
Gold Bridge Partners Inc.
http://www.nassgap.org/customquery/CQB...
- The Forum:
Lutz Berkner and Ajita Talwalker: Economic Diversity of Colleges
http://www.economicdiversity.org/
Amanda Hoffman: Students with Disabilities (.ppt)
Matt Steiner: TG Institutional Default Studies
Carol Frances: Student Aid: Adjusting Trends For Inflation--A Minor Technical Matter Or A Major Political Issue (.ppt)
Ryan Davis: College Access, Financial Aid, and College Success for Undergraduates from Foster Care (.ppt)
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2006
- Who Ever Thought BEOG/Pell Grants Would Equalize Postsecondary Education Opportunities?
W. Lee Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Has The Pell Program Influenced College Going Among Lower Income Students? (.pdf)
David Mundel
- Aspects of Undergraduate Finances: Using NPSAS Data to Analyze Borrowing in Minnesota and Connecticut (.ppt)
Tricia Grimes and Shefali Mehta, Minnesota Office of Higher Education
- Risk Factors Associated with Difficulty in Graduating in Texas
Matt Steiner, Texas Guarantee
Risk Factors for Dropping Out: Examining State and Regional Difficulties (.pdf)
Risk Factors for Dropping Out: Comparing the Southwest to the Nation (.pdf)
Risk Factors for Dropping Out: Comparing Texas to the Nation (.pdf)
- NPSAS:04 Filling the Data Gap at SUNY (.ppt)
John Curtice, SUNY
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Carolina Covenant (.ppt)
Lynn Williford and Shirley A. Ort, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Equitable Access for Low-Income College Students: Lessons from the Washington State Achievers Scholarship Program (.ppt)
Lorraine Solaegui, Washington Education Foundation, and Edward St. John, University of Michigan
- The Iowa Tuition Grant Policy Study: Examining the Distribution of Appropriations to For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Institutions (.ppt)
Keith Greiner, Iowa College Student Aid Commission
- Missed Opportunities Revisited: Students Who Don't Apply for Financial Aid (.ppt)
Jacqueline King, ACE
- Luncheon Speaker: Advocacy to Expand Educational Opportunity (.ppt)
Dr. Brenda Dann-Messier, President, Dorcas Place Adult and Family Learning Center, and Member of the Rhode Island Board of Governor's for Higher Education
- Dealing With Debt: 1992-93 Bachelor's Degree Recipients 10 Years Later (.ppt)
Susan Choy, MPR Associates Inc
- Global Debt Patterns: An International Comparison of Student Loan Burdens and Repayment Conditions (.ppt)
Alex Usher, Educational Policy Institute
- Economic Disparities in Access to Wisconsin's Public Colleges and Universities An Exploration of the Concentration of Disadvantage (.ppt)
Sara Goldrick Rab, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Barriers to College: The Role of Tuition, Financial Aid, Scholastic Preparation and College Supply On College Enrollments (.ppt)
Katie Baird, University of Washington, Tacoma
- The New Funding Arrangements For Students In England: Will They Increase Participation In Higher Education For Those From Disadvantaged Backgrounds? (.ppt)
Heather Eggins, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
- Interest Relief Program and Loan Repayment (.ppt)
John Mortimer and Patrick Codrington Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
- How Borrowing Money Is Related To Degree Attainment (.ppt)
Dongbin Kim, University of Kansas
SATURDAY JUNE 26, 2006
- College Goal Sunday: Reducing Financial Aid Barriers for Underrepresented Students? (.ppt)
Ryan Davis, NASFAA, and Wendy Erisman, Institute for Higher Education Policy
- What They Knew & Why It Mattered: The Financial Aid Awareness of Low-Income Students of Color in Urban California High Schools (.ppt)
Kristan Venegas, University of Nevada, Reno
- The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on the Educational Outcomes of Low-Income Minority Students: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis (.ppt)
Stephen L. DesJardins, University of Michigan and Brian P. McCall University of Minnesota
- Policies and Practices that Improve Graduation Rates for Low-Income Students at Large Public Colleges and Universities (.ppt)
John Lee, JBL Associates, Jennifer Engle, Pell Institute, and Jerry Davis
ADDITIONAL PRESENTATION:
The following presentation was scheduled to be included in the conference, but the presenters were unable to attend. Our colleagues from Tennessee were kind enough to share the presentation that they had prepared.
The Impact of Limited Need-Based State Aid on College-Going and Persistence (.ppt)
Russ Deaton, Rob Anderson, and Brian Noland, Tennessee Higher Education Commission (TennPresentation)
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