SAIR 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 25th – 28th

SAIR category: Institutional Research / Work Share

Helping IR Professionals Understand the Financial Aid Section of the Common Data Set (ppt)

Supporting documents:

Georgia Southern’s CDS 2009-10_excerpts relating to Enrollment and Financial Aid (docx)

CDS 2010-11_excerpts relating to Enrollment and Financial Aid (rtf)

Georgia Southern Fund Codes, Waiver Codes, and Examples on Counting Aid as Need or Non-need bases (xlsx)

Monday, September 27, 2010, 3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

Completing the Common Data Set financial aid Section offers yet another challenge for IR officers. Often times this section is handed off from Financial Aid offices without IR professionals having enough knowledge to complete the survey or to help verify accuracy. This session will review how data are (or could be) compiled in collaboration with Financial Aid Professionals. Learn the questions you can ask……to help assure your institution is knowledgeable about the intricacies of these data. Issues will include: 1) counting type of aid as need-based if a student has need balance versus pre-determined codes indicating need-based, 2) inclusion of waivers, 3) out-of-state aid versus waivers, 4) use of offered aid vs accepted aid.

Presenter: Dr. Jayne Perkins Brown, Georgia Southern University

Last updated: 5/21/2018