Highlights from 3/12/13 #FAchat: Professional Development

The good news is that we have had a lot of folks using the #FAchat tag on twitter this week. The bad news is that we were only able to go back far enough to get the end of the chat. Our apologies for the partial Storify. A full transcript can be viewed here. 

March #FAchat Topic: Networking & Professional Development

Join us on Tuesday, March 12, at 12 pm CST for #FAChat.

Discussion Topic: Networking & Professional Development

Conference season is approaching, which is a great tool for networking and professional development, even if you are unable to attend (by following the conference hashtag on the backchannel).  In this chat, we will be discussing how financial aid professionals can take advantage of conferences and other professional development opportunities.  We will also include an opportunity to discuss upcoming presentations, collaborations, and upcoming conference hashtags.  There are also several calls for session proposals and we encourage participants to connect and collaborate in sharing knowledge to the financial aid community.

Please join us on Tuesday, March 12 from 12-1pm CST to discuss networking and professional development for financial aid professionals and other enrollment management professionals.

If you have not joined #FAchat before and you have a Twitter account, you can join via TweetChat at http://tweetchat.com/room/fachat during the time of the chat.  If you do not currently have a Twitter account, but would like to follow along with the chat out, you can do so at the Twitter website.

See you Tuesday!

Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery Project

In September 2012 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided grants to 14 organizations working on postsecondary financial aid solutions. The organizations represent a mix of thought leaders from business, higher education, civil rights and public policy. The grants are part of the Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery (RADD) project. This project is intended to spark a discussion about how financial aid can be used to increase student success, especially for low-income and middle-income students.

Agency	White Paper
Alliance for Excellent Education	A System in Need of Repair; An Examination of Federal Student Aid for Postsecondary Education
Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU)	Federal Student Aid: Access and Completion
Center for Law & Social Policy (CLASP)	Reforming Student Aid How to Simplify Tax Aid and Use Performance Metrics to Improve College Choices and Completion
Committee for Economic Development	A New Partnership: Reshaping the Federal and State Commitment to Need-Based Aid
Excelencia in Education	Using A Latino Lens To Reimagine Aid Design and Delivery
HCM Strategists	New Partnership: Reshaping the Federal and State Commitment to Need-Based Aid
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)	Making Sense of the System Financial Aid Reform for the 21st Century Student
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)	Reimagining Financial Aid To Improve Student Access and Outcomes
National College Access Network (NCAN)	Increasing Return on Investment from Federal Student Aid
New America Foundation (NAF)	Higher Education: Rebalancing Resources and Incentives in Federal Student Aid
The Education Trust	Doing Away With Debt -- Using Existing Resources to Ensure College Affordability for Low and Middle-Income Families
The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS)	Aligning the Means and the Ends: How to Improve Federal Student Aid and Increase College Access and Success
US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for a Competitive Workforce	Redesigning Federal Financial Aid
Young Invincibles	The Student Perspective on Federal Financial Aid Reform

2/22/13 12:00 pm - Editors Note - Looks like the credit goes to Carolyn Henrich at the University of California for putting the original list together that has been circulating. Thanks Carolyn!