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A Brief History ofA Brief History ofThe Rocky Mountain Association ofThe Rocky Mountain Association of Student Student
Financial Aid AdministratorsFinancial Aid Administrators
The States Represented At the 1st Meeting:
*Colorado *Idaho *Montana
*Utah *Wyoming
RMASFAA Was Organized To:
1. Promote and facilitate the coordination of student financial aid programs.
2. Advise and assist in the promotion and development of effective programs of student financial aid.
3. Promote and facilitate communication between higher education institutions and the sponsors of student aid funds.
4. Foster and promote high standards of professional preparation of financial aid administrators and counselors in institutions of higher education and other public and private agencies.
President Education Assistance Corporation
Clark J. Wold
PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE
1968-69 Oscar R. "Jack" Hendrix University of Wyoming
1969-70 James Sanderson University of Utah
1970-71 Harry E. Collins University of Northern Colorado 1971-72 Richard Winder College of Idaho at Caldwell
1972-73 James Craig Montana State University
1973-74 Wayne Tesmer North Dakota State University
1974-75 Donald Scott Augustana College
1975 Mark Heffron University of Colorado-Boulder
1975-76 Sylvia Webster University of Northern Colorado
1976-77 James Bishop Northern State College
1977-78 James Gordon Colorado State College
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NATIONAL EVENTSRMASFAA HISTORY
Date incorporated and charter states.
RMASFAA OriginationColorado
IdahoMontana
UtahWyoming
Martin Luther King and Robert
Kennedy assassinated.
•Richard Nixon elected president.
•“The Graduate” Simon & Garfunkel
album
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•Neil Armstrong became 1st person to set foot on the moon.
•Woodstock attended by 500,000+
World Series
NY Mets d. Baltimore
(4-1)
NATIONAL EVENTS
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NATIONAL EVENTS
•Movie-M*A*S*H
•Midnight Cowboy- Best Picture Oscar
•First Earth Day celebrated
•IBM introduces the floppy disc, bar codes
first used
RMASFAA HISTORYConference Site:
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NATIONAL EVENTS
•Sports – Nebraska NCAA football
champions (13-0-0)
•Intel develops the microprocessor
•June 30, 26th Amendment ratified lowering voting age to 18.
•RMASFAA HISTORY
•Conference Site:Montana
RMASFAA HISTORY
Higher Ed Reauthorization
Created:
Basic Opportunity Grant
First federal need analysis methodology
NATIONAL EVENTS•New – Electronic mail started
•Video games –
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•Conference Site:
Wyoming
•Idaho leaves RMASFAA
•North & South Dakota join RMASFAA
NATIONAL EVENTS
•New – TCIP/IP designed
•Vietnam peace pacts signed in Paris
•Movies – The Godfather
RMASFAA HISTORY
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NATIONAL EVENTS*•President Nixon resigned and Gerald R. Ford sworn in as 38th U.S. President.
•People with Mia Farrow on the first cover of People.
RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:Utah
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NATIONAL EVENTS•T.V. – Saturday Night Live premieres-
George Carlin first host
•Music – “I Honestly Love You” Olivia Newton-John
RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:Colorado
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Higher Education Amendments of 1976
*Reauthorized Title IV programs
*Created student consumer information
requirements
*Authorized processing of need analysis data by Multiple Data Entry
Processors(MDEs)
NATIONAL EVENTS
•July 4, U.S. celebrated 200th Anniversary of
Independence Day
•Sports – Dorothy Hamill figure skating gold medalist
in Winter Olympics
• Movies – “Rocky”
RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:South Dakota
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Higher Education Amendments
*Reauthorized Title IV programs
*Created student consumer information requirements
*Authorized processing of need analysis data by
Multiple Data Entry Processors (MDE’s)
•Movies-"Star Wars” & “Saturday Night Fever”
•New – Space Shuttle
RMASFAA HISTORY
NATIONAL EVENTS
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Michael Johnson
Policy & Training
Utah Higher Education
Assistance Authority
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PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE
1978-79 William Jones South Dakota School of Mines
1979-80 Michael Johnson Utah Technical College
1980-81 Donald Mullen University of Montana
1981-82 Robert Pike University of Nebraska
1982-83 Mary Lou Hildebrandt Northern State College
1983-84 Gary Schultz Colby Community College
1984-85 Bruce Anderson North Dakota State University
1985-86 Richard "Dick" Koontz Bethel College
1986-87 Craig Walker Colorado State College
1987-88 Dan Klock Wyoming Technical Institute
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Middle Income Student Assistance Act (MISAA)
additional dollars to *Appropriated existing
aid programs.
*Expanded BEOG eligibility to include
middle-and upper-middle income families.
NATIONAL EVENTS
•First test tube baby born in Great Britain
•Movies – The Deer Hunter, Superman, Grease
•TV Shows – The Mary Tyler Moore Show
RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:
North Dakota
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•Larry Bird (Indiana State)
NCAA Basketball
Championship Game
NATIONAL EVENTS•Three Mile Island Partial Meltdown
•RMASFAA HISTORY
•Conference Site:Montana
Higher Ed Reauthorization
What new loan program was created by the 1980
Higher Ed Amendments?
PLUS Program Allowed Middle-income
parents to borrow
No restrictions on income
$3,000 per year per dependent
RMASFAA HISTORY
Nebraska joins RMASFAA
•Conference Site:
Salt Lake City, UT
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Ronald Reagan becomes 40th US
President
•Music – Call Me - Blondie
•Sports – Miracle on Ice US Hockey Team wins Olympics over
USSR
•TV Shows – Magnum PI
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
RMASFAA HISTORY
Kansas joins RMASFAA
•Conference Site:
Snow King Resort Jackson Hole, WY
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Movies – Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Wed
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
(OBRA)
NEED was reintroduced as a
condition for eligibility for
guaranteed loans.
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
RMASFAA HISTORY
Articles of Incorporation are filed
in North Dakota
1st Summer Institute held at University of
Colorado – Boulder, CO
Conference Site:Red Lion Hotel
Omaha, NE
NATIONAL EVENTS
Movies – E.T.
•T.V. Shows – Cheers
Music – Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
Defense Authorization
Acts
Student Financial
Assistance Technical
Amendments
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RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:
Vail Manor
Vail, CO
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Population: 233,791,994
•Median Household
Income
(current dollars): $20,885
•Wimbledon
Women:
Martina Navratilova d. A.
Jaeger (6-0 6-3)
Men: John McEnroe d. C.
Lewis (6-2 6-2 6-2)
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RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:
Holiday Inn Rapid City, SD
NATIONAL EVENTS•Sports – Los
Angeles hosts the Olympic Games
•Movies – Back to the Future
•TV Shows – Miami Vice
Consolidated Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act
RMASFAA HISTORY
The Initial Year of the Distinguished Service
Award Mary Heidrick
Keith Ninemire
Gary Schultz
Glenn ‘Skip’ Sharp
Larry Viterna
The Initial Year of the RMASFAA Hall of Fame
AWARDJim Gordon, Colorado
State University
Conference Site:Crown Plaza Hotel
Wichita, KS
NATIONAL EVENTS
•"What's Love Got to Do With It," by
Tina Turner
“New Coke” introduced and fails.
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Consolidated OmnibusBudget Reconciliation Act
*Credit bureau reporting required for all lenders and
guarantors
*Schools required to determine student’s Pell Grant eligibility before
certifying a GSL application
*Guarantors required to ensure a Lender-of-Last-
Resort program be available
RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:
Holiday InnBismarck, ND
NATIONAL EVENTS
•January 20, First officially observed Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day
•Space shuttle “Challenger” exploded killing 6.
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RMASFAA HISTORY
•Conference Site: Holiday Inn
Billings, MT
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Bill Gates becomes a Billionaire
•Aretha Franklin becomes the
first woman inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Janet DodsonVice President, Policy, Research
and EducationNational Student Loan Program
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PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE
1988-89 Karen Webber Regis College
1989-90 Glenn "Skip" Sharp Northwest Kansas AVTS
1990-91 Robert Walker Creighton University
1991-92 John Gritts Black Hills State University
1992-93 Dale Gehring Minot State University
1993-94 Dean Obenauer Northwest College
1994-95 Larry Moeder Kansas State University
1995-96 Roger Koester Colorado School of the Mines
1996-97 Janet Dodson Doane College
1997-98 Sandy Calhoun Colorado State University
RMASFAA HISTORY
President’s Special
Award
Dan Lau, US Department of
Education, Washington DC
Paul ToneDepartment of
Education, Region VIII
Conference Site:Cornhusker Hotel Lincoln, NE
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Movie-“Rain Man” won an Oscar for the best
movie.
•Cost of a first-class
stamp: $0.22
CDs outsell vinyl records for the first
time.
FEDERAL
LEGISLATIONGSL renamed Stafford
Senator Robert T.
Stafford
(R-VT) honored by
renaming
GSL program the
“Stafford Loan”
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Student Loan Reconciliation
Amendments of 1989.
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Bruce Anderson, North Dakota State University
Conference Site: Hitching Post Inn Cheyenne, WY
NATIONAL EVENTS
•After 28 years the Berlin Wall is open to the West.
•Movies:
Born on the Fourth of July, Field of Dreams
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Student Right-to-Know and Campus
Security Act
*Required institutions to
disclose:
*Certain graduation and job-placement
rates.
*Campus security policies and campus
crime statistics.
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Mike Johnson
Utah Valley State College
Conference Site:Prospector Square
Park City, UT
NATIONAL EVENTS
T.V.-Seinfeld debuts
•Movie-Dances with Wolves
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
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RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award Dick KoontzBethel College (KS)
Conference Site:Westin Inn Vail, CO
• Movie-Beauty & the Beast
Top 100 Hits of 1991:
Everything I Do I Do It For You Bryan
Adams From A Distance, Bette
Midler
Losing My Religion, R.E.M.
Play That Funky Music, Vanilla Ice
NATIONAL EVENTS
Dennis Martinez Montreal at LA 7/28/1991 2-0
Perfect Game in Baseball
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FEDERAL
LEGISLATIONHigher Education Reauthorization
*Renamed GSL Program to “Federal Family Education Loan Program,” or FFELP
loans.
*Created a Federal Unsubsidized Loan.
*Eliminated PLUS loan limits.
*Required development of common FFELP application,
promissory not, & deferment forms.
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Don Siemsen
Manhattan Area Technical College
Conference Site:
Howard Johnson Hotel Sioux Falls, SD
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Lawrence Welk passes away.
•Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for
the last time.
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Student Loan Reform Act
RMASFAA HISTORY
Committee of the Year Professional Development
NASFAA Leadership Award
Rita BaylessSt. Mary’s of the
Plains (KS)
Conference Site:DoubleTree Hotel
Overland Park, KS
RMASFAA 25th Anniversary
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Mississippi River Flood
•Mark Twain-“The Mississippi River will always have its own way, no engineering
skill can persuade it to do otherwise…”
“Unforgiven” Clint Eastwood’s movie
wins the Oscar.
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
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FEDERAL LEGISLATIONBankruptcy Reform Act of 1994
Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994
Ed began unannounced federal program reviews.
RMASFAA HISTORY
The Initial Year of the Oscar R. ‘Jack’ Hendrix
Award (Rookie of the Year)
Deb Riding, University of Utah
NASFAA Leadership Award
John Gritts, Black Hills State University
Conference Site:Holiday Inn
Fargo, ND
NATIONAL EVENTS
•January 1, North American Free Trade
Agreement took effect
•U.S. Senator Tom Daschle of SD became
the U.S. Senate minority leader
•Cheryl Crow Tops charts with “All I wanna
do”
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RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Glenn ‘Skip’ Sharp,Northwest
KansasTechnical School
Conference Site:Grouse Mountain
Lodge Whitefish, MT
NATIONAL EVENTS
U.S. rescues Mexico’s economy with $20-billion aid program.
Russian space station Mir greets first
Americans and docks with U.S. shuttle.
Toy Story tops the movie charts
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FEDERAL LEGISLATIONOmnibus Consolidated
Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996
*For the 1996-97 award year, established
maximum Federal Pell Grant of $2,470 for 1996-97
*Prohibited a student from receiving a Federal PellGrant at a school that is
ineligible to participate in the FFEL or Direct Loan programs
as the result of high cohort default rates
RMASFAA HISTORY
Summer Institute moves to Colorado College – Colorado Springs, CO
NASFAA Leadership Award
Robert Walker,Creighton University (NE)
Conference Site:Red Lion Hotel
Omaha, NE First sightings of Corn
Cob Man
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Music-Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
•Median Household Income
(current dollars): $35,492
•Population: 5.760 billion
•Clinton signs line-item veto bill
•Michael Johnson fastest man in the world
MACARENA
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Tax Relief Act of 1997:
*Created the HOPE Credit
*Life Time learning Tax Credit
*Restored the deductibility for student
loan interest for 60 months
*Created new Education I.R.A.’s
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Donna Johnson,Norwest Banks
President’s Special Award
Gary SchultzTarget Marketing, Inc.
Conference Site:Holiday Inn
Sheridan, WY
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Comet Hale-Bopp is the closest it will be to Earth until 4397.
US spacecraft begins
exploration of Mars
• Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule .
•Mother Theresa dies at 87.
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Director of Financial AidMesa State College
Curt Martin
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PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE
1998-99 Sue Weinreis Montana State University
1999-00 Joan Zanders Northeast Community College
2000-01 Wilma Kasnic Emporia State University
2001-02 Darry Voigt Casper College
2002-03 Jim Swanson University of Nebraska
2003-04 Mary Sommers University of Nebraska
2004-05 Peg Mason Colorado School of Mines
2005-06 Sally Schuman University of Wyoming
2006-07 Cristi Easton Millard
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Higher Ed Reauthorization
Allowed Financial Aid Administrators authority to
limit borrowing
In specific majorsFor years in school
Allowed Financial Aid Administrators authority to
refuse to certify a loan For students they believe
have no intention of repaying
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Larry Moeder, Kansas State
University
Conference Site:DoubleTree World
ArenaColorado Springs, CO
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Movies: Titanic becomes the
highest-grossing film of all time
•Science: The FDA approves the male
impotence drug Viagra.
•Europeans agree on single currency,
the euro.
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership NASFAA
Leadership Award Roger Koester
Colorado School of Mines
Conference Site:
Dixie Center
St. George, UT
NATIONAL EVENTS
The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug with more drastic millennial
theorists warning of Armageddon.
The first human hand transplant is performed
in the U.S.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
closes above 11,000 for the first time
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Direct Lending introduced loan
discounts:
*1% reduction in origination fees
*0.25% interest rate reduction for auto debit
Why did DL introduce these discounts?
*Y2K loomed as a ticking time bomb.
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Lenders sued Department of Education
*To block ED from offering loan discounts without
offering similar discounts to FFELP borrowers
ED countered
*Would save students money by reducing costs
*Necessary for parity with FFELP discounts
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Dean Obenauer, Creighton
University (NE)
• Conference Site:
Holiday Inn Rapid City, SD
NATIONAL EVENTS
•U.S. Presidential Election closest in decades. Florida
recounts take months.
•I LOVEYOU Virus trashes computers
world wide
•Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player to win a Grand Slam in
Golf
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation
Act
*Increased contribution level for Education IRAs
*Qualified Tuition Programexpanded
*Student loan interest deduction 60-month limit
repealed and increased the income phase-out for use
of the deduction
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Phil Van HornWyoming Student Loan
Corporation
Conference Site:Hyatt Regency Wichita, KS
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Anthrax scare rivets nation, as letters are
sent to various media and government
officials.
•Artificial heart implanted in man.
•Record of the Year: "Beautiful Day,“ U2
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Higher Education Relief Opportunities for
Students Act
*Gives Secretary of Education broad
authority to waive regulatory or statutory
requirements to respond to the
needs of students, families, and student loan borrowers in the
aftermathof the
September 11 attack.
RMASFAA HISTORY
Initial Year for the Ron Smout Award for
Teaching and Mentoring
Larry Viterna, USA Funds Services
NASFAA Leadership Award
Bob Neas, North Dakota State University
Conference Site:Radisson Inn Bismarck, ND
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Movies- Spider Man, Lord of the Rings
•Queen Elizabeth
dies in UK
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Supreme Court
Upholds Affirmative Action in University
Admissions
RMASFAA HISTORY
Summer Institute held at Regis University,
Denver, CO
NASFAA Leadership Award
Sue Weinreis, Montana State
University - Billings
Conference Site:Big Sky Resort
Big Sky, MT
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Deaths
*John Ritter
*Bob Hope
*Fred Rogers
•Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean
•Apple Computer introduces iTune Music Store
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RMASFAA HISTORY
Summer Institute relocated to Colorado School of Mines,
Golden CO
NASFAA Leadership AwardSandy Calhoun,
Colorado State University
Conference Site:Embassy Suites Omaha, NE
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Deadliest in History
Magnitude=9.0
•2004 Olympics in Athens
* 201 nations *10,625 athletes
•Movies-Shrek 2
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Higher Education Reconciliation Act
HERA is a HERO
* Stafford max to $3,500
*Grad PLUS
*Broadened teacher loan forgiveness
HERA is no HERO
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Joan Zanders,Northeast Community College
(NE)
President’s Special Award
Roger KoesterColorado School of Mines
Conference Site:Snow King Resort
Jackson Hole, WY
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Worldwide aid pours in to help the eleven Asian countries devastated by the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami.
•About 11 million Iraqis turn out to select their first permanent Parliament since the overthrow of
Saddam Hussein.•Record of the Year:
"Here We Go Again," Ray Charles & Norah Jones
Katrina- Historic destruction
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
*ACGGrant
*SMART Grant
RMASFAA HISTORY
NASFAA Leadership Award
Jim Swanson Colorado College
President’s Special Award
Brett Lief
NCHELP
Conference Site:Sheraton City Centre
Hotel Salt Lake City, UT
NATIONAL EVENTS
•Spacecraft “New Horizons” launched for
nine-year journey to study Pluto
• Dow Jones IndustrialAverage closes above 12,000 for the 1st time
•Academy Award, Best Picture: Crash
•Korea tests its first Nuclear weapon
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
College Cost Reduction & Access Act (CCRA)
RMASFAA HISTORY
Conference Site:
Beaver Run Resort Breckenridge, CO
NATIONAL EVENTS
Most Livable Countries 2007
1.Iceland2.Norway
3.Australia4.Canada5.Ireland6.Sweden
7.Switzerland8.Japan
9.Netherlands10.France
*Published annually by the UN. Criteria for calculating
rankings include:life expectancy, adult
literacy, school enrollment, educational attainment, and
adjusted real income.
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FEDERAL LEGISLATIONEnsuring Continued
Access to Student Loans Act
*Raised Stafford loan limits
*Established new optional repayment terms for Parent
PLUS*Eased credit criteria for
Parent & Grad PLUS loans
*Loosened eligibility restriction on who is eligible
for LLR loans
RMASFAA HISTORY
Summer Institute held at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT
NASFAA Leadership
Award
Janet Dodson National
Student Loan Program
Conference Site:
Sheraton Sioux Falls & Convention Center
Sioux Falls, SD
RMASFAA Celebrates 40 Years!
NATIONAL EVENTS
•National Mortagage Crisis
erupts
•Oil breaks $100 /barrel barrier
•Gas Prices Clear $4.00 Gallon
• First Women nominated to Republican
presidential ticket
•African American wins democratic nomination for
president
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CongratulationsCongratulations RMASFAA RMASFAA on 40 years of service to on 40 years of service to
students, financial aid, and students, financial aid, and training of colleagues. training of colleagues.
Best Wishes on many more Best Wishes on many more years of success and years of success and
serviceservice!!
RMASFAA 40th Anniversary RMASFAA 40th Anniversary CommitteeCommittee