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24th Annual SFARN Conference
The Governor Hotel, Portland, OR
June 21-23, 2007


The following lists all presentations made during the 24th 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 Colleen O'Brien.


    THURSDAY JUNE 21, 2007


  1. Shared Responsibility/Earned Opportunity: A New Philosophy and Practice for the Delivery of State Need-based Student Financial Aid in Oregon (.ppt)
    Dr. Nancy Goldschmidt, Oregon Access and Affordability Working Group / Oregon Health & Science University, and David Longanecker, WICHE

  2. A Closer Look at Pell Grant Recipients: College Freshmen and College Graduates (.ppt)
    Laura Horn, MPR Associates

  3. Persistence of Community College Students Who Are Pell Grant Recipients (.ppt)
    John Lee, JBL Associates

  4. Paying for Persistence: Early Results of a Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents Attending Community College (.ppt)
    Introduction by Derek Price, DVP-Praxis, LTD, presentation by Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, MDRC

  5. False HOPE? Implications of Expansive Eligibility Requirements for the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship Program (.ppt)
    David Wright and Rob Anderson, Tennessee Higher Education Commission

  6. The Criteria Evolution of West Virginia’s PROMISE Scholarship Program (.ppt)
    Erik Ness, University of Pittsburgh, and Lisa DeFrank-Cole, West Virginia University

  7. Can Federal Need Analysis Be Simplified: What Do the Data Show? (.ppt)
    Michelle Cooper and Brent Evans, Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance

  8. Alternative Approaches to Need Analysis: Federal Methodology and Institutional Methodology (.ppt)
    Kathy Little, The College Board

  9. Ready, Willing and Unable: How Financial Barriers Obstruct Bachelor-Degree Attainment in Texas
    Jeff Webster, TG

    Ready, Willing, and Unable: Summary (.pdf)

    Ready, Willing, and Unable: Full Report (.pdf)

  10. The Forum:

    Factors Related to Undergraduate Borrowing in Minnesota (.ppt)
    Shefali Mehta, Koffi Adragni, and Tricia Grimes, Minnesota Office of Higher Education

    The Effects of College Financial Aid on Household Saving Behavior, Evidence from the 1992 Amendments to the Higher Education Act (.ppt)
    Binzhen Wu, Tshingua University, P.R. China

    Financial Aid among Traditional-age Students and Adult Learners in the Community College (.ppt)
    Kimberly Rogers and Brenda Ruot, University of Buffalo

    An Instrument to Measure the Perceived Returns on Investment (PROI) from PSE
    Anne Motte and Joseph Berger, Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation

    Student Loan Forbearance: Usage Patterns, Outcomes, and Borrower Characteristics
    Matt Steiner, TG

    Alternative Measures of Average Price Sensitivity: An Institutional Enrollment Probability Model
    Fred Galloway and Linda Siefert, University of San Diego

    Cohort Differences on the Effect of Financial Aid on College Graduation, 1965-2004: A Survey of Texas Residents (.ppt)

    Cohort Differences: Handout (.pdf)
    Christopher Teran, Texas A&M University


  11. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2007


  12. Trends in Borrowing II: Federal Student Loans in 1995-96, 1999-2000, and 2003-04
    Christina Chang Wei, MPR Associates

  13. Why Do Families Borrow So Much for Higher Education? (.ppt)
    Binzhen Wu, Tsinghua University

  14. The Future of Private Loans: Who’s Borrowing and Why? (.ppt)
    Courtney McSwain, Institute for Higher Education Policy

  15. The Rise of Private Loans: What Do We Know and What Does It Mean? (.ppt)
    Christopher Mazzeo, and Jonathan Reischl, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  16. The Effect of Savings on Access and Student Loan Borrowing (.ppt)
    Alex Usher and Ross Finnie, EPI

  17. Saving For College (.ppt)
    Jennie Woo, EDFUND

  18. Rethinking Student Aid
    Sandy Baum, The College Board
    For more information, or to offer comments, please contact Sandy Baum at SBaum AT collegeboard.org.

  19. What Explains the Variation Among Universities in the Prevalence of Pell Grant Recipients? (.ppt)
    Matthew Steinberg and Patrizio Piraino, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  20. The Influence of Financial Aid and the State Financial Aid Policy Context on College Choice Decisions of Low- and Moderate-Income Students (.ppt)
    Michelle Cooper, Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, and Heather Rowan-Kenyon, University of Virginia

  21. The Impact of State College-going Policy Orientation on Academic Preparation and College Enrollment of Different Types of High Schools (.ppt)
    Angela Bell, University of Georgia

  22. The Power of Gift Aid in Predicting Student Retention: Results from a Recent Retention Study at IUPUI (.ppt)
    Derek Price, DVP-PRAXIS LTD, and Michelle Hansen, Indiana University—Purdue University at Indianapolis

  23. The Impact of Student Financial Assistance on Persistence (.ppt)
    Anne Motte and Joseph Berger, Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation

    http://millenniumscholarships.ca/../../MRN04_Persistence_EN.pdf

  24. Using the Internet to Access Financial Aid: Challenges and Opportunities for Low-Income Students (.ppt)
    Kristan Venegas, University of Southern California

    Venegas, K. (2007). The Internet and college access: Challenges for low-income students. American Academic 3:141-154 (.pdf)

    Venegas, K. (2006). Low-income urban student’s use of the Internet to access financial aid. Journal of Student Aid 36(1): 4-15 (.pdf)


  25. SATURDAY JUNE 23, 2007


  26. Persistence and Attainment Rates of Students Beginning in 2003-2004 after Three Years
    Lutz Berkner, MPR Associates

    Enrollment Impact of Need-Based BEOG/ Pell Grants
    Lee Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  27. Have Pell Grants Stimulated Increased College-going Among Lower Income Youth? (.ppt)
    David Mundel

  28. How School Context Affects the Success of First-Generation College Students (.ppt)
    Sara Goldrick-Rab and Justin Ronca, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  29. Straight from the Source: What Works for First-Generation College Students (.ppt)
    Colleen O’Brien, Pell Institute

    http://www.pellinstitute.org/files/files-sfts_what_works.pdf

  30. Worse Comes to Worst: Student Loan Default Rates in Nevada (.ppt)
    Christopher Kypuros, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  31. Does Where You Live Matter? Exploring Differences in the Canadian Student Loan Program (.ppt)
    Leesha Lin, and Ya-Bilongo Nungisa, Canadian Student Loan Program



 


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