Fall Financial Aid Workshops
Take advantage of SSS professional development coming to a city near you. The 2009 Fall Financial Aid Workshops are held in several cities throughout the country. Before each two-day Financial Aid Workshop, we offer an additional New Professional Day, which is geared to practitioners who have worked in financial aid for two years or less.
Read more in the SSS Workshop informational brochure (pdf).
The workshops will guide you through case studies, group discussions, individual activities, and presenter-facilitated forums to help you understand how to:
- use the new Comp*Assist Online and other SSS by NAIS tools to make efficient financial aid decisions;
- apply key concepts in calculating family contributions;
- create stronger financial aid policy and procedures to professionalize financial aid operations; and
- consider trends in a discussion of affordability challenges in these difficult economic times.
Workshop Fees, Dates, and Locations
Click on "Register Now" to register for a workshop via our online registration system. Contact the hotel directly to reserve your hotel room. Contact Patricia Hayden, Director of Professional Development, at hayden@nais.org or 202-973-9700 with any questions.
| 2009 Dates | Workshop Location | Workshop Prices | Registration Deadlines | Hotel Rates: |
New Professionals Day: Dec. 8
Workshop: Dec. 9-10
| Sheraton Baltimore Inner Harbor
300 S. Charles St
Baltimore, MD
| New Professionals Day & Workshop: Early Bird: $520 / Standard: $635
Workshop Only: Early Bird: $450 / Standard: $550
| Registration closed. *No additional registration will be taken. Standard: November 17 | Reservation has closed. |
New Professionals Day: Dec.15
Workshop: Dec. 16-17
Register Now | InterContinental New Orleans
444 St. Charles Ave.
New Orleans, LA
| New Professionals Day & Workshop: Early Bird: $520 / Standard: $635
Workshop Only: Early Bird: $450 / Standard: $550 |
Standard: Nov. 23 | $99 if you book by Nov. 23. Click here or call (800) 445-6563 to book your hotel. |
Workshop Cancellation Policy
Cancellation must be sent in writing and received by the standard registration deadline of the workshop which you planned to attend to be entitled to 50% of your workshop registration fee. No refunds will be given after the standard registration deadline; however, substituting an attendee from the same school is acceptable.
"The interactions with other financial aid professionals are infinitely helpful at the SSS Financial Aid Workshops. Working on case studies, everyone had a chance to share their own experiences and how they handled different problems. After hearing seasoned professionals talk about situations that I could never have imagined coming up, I felt much more prepared for my first year." - Deanna Belcher, The School at Columbia University (NY)
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