REGION II MEETING
CHURCHVILLE PARK, ROCHESTER
ATTENDANCE
Schools:
SUNY Brockport: Scott Atkinson
SUNY Geneseo: Susan Romano, Archie Cureton, Andrea Mason
SUNY Geneseo Emeritus: Ed Reiman
University of
Vendors:
Bank of
Citibank: Debi Mansour
Citizens Bank: Jean Fura
Edamerica: Holly Zaglaniczny
Fifth Third Bank: Marc Woolf
Key Education Resources: Kathleen O’Connell
M&T Bank: Andy Leardini, Rick Ross
National Education: Eddie Viera
Nellie Mae: Katrina Delgrosso, Abbey Linsner
NYHESC: Ed Gilbert
Sallie Mae: Ithrene Cameron
Student Loan Xpress: Brian Levy
Wachovia Education
Finance: Karen Blankenburg
Treasurer’s Report (Scott Atkinson for Nora Bell):
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Balance = $520.88
Membership (Katrina Delgrosso):
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05-06 NYSFAAA
membership renewal/new applications are available on-line at www.nysfaaa.org.
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With your
membership, you will be signed up for the NYSFAAA listserv for 05-06, as long
as you check that box in the membership renewal/new application. You have to sign yourself up for the regional
listservs separately—that is not automatically done for you.
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Margaret
Christian volunteered to take the Region II membership role starting in
05-06. Thank you, Margaret!
Support Staff Workshop (Karen Blankenburg):
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Cost was $826,
which was less than the $950 they requested from NYSFAAA.
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38 attendees
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Evaluations were
great.
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If you would like
to volunteer for this spring workshop in 2006, please let Karen know at karen.blankenburg@wachovia.com. So far, we have 2 volunteers for the
committee—Ro Monachino from GCC and Alton Johnson from
Guidance Counselor Workshop (Jerome St. Croix for
Nancy VanZetta):
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Also looking for
a location in the
05-06 Region II Meeting Schedule (Jerome St. Croix):
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Will continue
with training topics. Please let Susan
Romano know if you have training topics you would like to see (romano@geneseo.edu).
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Meetings will be
held in September, November, December, February, March, April or May and
June. Dates will be available in late
August for the 05-06 meetings. If other
regions have meetings planned for 05-06, we will be careful to work around
those.
Executive Council (Jerome St. Croix for John Smith):
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John Smith
finished his term as the Exec Council rep.
Thank you, John, for serving Region II in this role. Steve Dodds will be the new Exec Council rep
for Region II. There were no other
Region II members who ran for this position, so no election was held for it.
Thank you to today’s sponsors for the extras that were
needed (water, soda, doughnuts, etc.):
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Edamerica, Nellie
Mae, Student Loan Xpress and Key Education Resources
HESC Update (Ed Gilbert):
APTS Deadline Notification
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HESC has implemented an automated e-mail system to notify schools of approaching deadlines
for the submission of the Aid for Part-time Study (APTS) recipients and for the
certification of the APTS roster. The
APTS coordinator and the TAP certification officer will receive the e-mail.
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According to state law, schools must submit eligible
recipients and replacements/deletions within 45 days of the add/drop date. Certifications must be submitted within 45
days of the term end date or by July 30 of the current academic year, whichever
is first.
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Please verify the school’s add/drop dates and term-end
dates on the college file Web page in G&S Transaction Processing on
hesc.org. Please make sure e-mail addresses for the APTS coordinator and TAP
certification officer are correct on HESC’s files.
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Please contact John DeFazio at jdefazio@hesc.org with
questions about APTS e-mail.
G&S 2005-06
Processing Update
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Income
Verification has been completed. Award
Certificates/Change forms are being mailed.
Summer Rosters became available June 1st. Online Change forms will be available by the
summer of 2005.
Student Status Listing
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Beginning in June, the 2005-06 student status listing
will be run each Friday; the 2004-05
listing will be run once per month through December 2005.
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Files will be available for retrieval the following morning. Payments
will be mailed or electronically transferred within three to five weeks of the
date of the associated roster or accounting documents.
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HESC Grants and
Scholarships reports are also now available for printing and viewing by
visiting or clicking on the following HESC Web link:
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https://web.hesc.org/hescweb/main?target=topnav&selectedTab=1
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If you are
authorized to access this data, you will be required to logon with your HESC
user ID and password. For assistance in obtaining a User ID and password,
contact HESC’s Help Desk at 1-888-NYS-HESC, (1-888-697-4372).
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As previously
announced, HESC created separate preferred lender lists for
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HESC also added
another option for schools to have a graduate
law and graduate medical
preferred lender list displayed for graduate borrowers. When a borrower is
asked for his or her level of education, a drop down box will display.
Schools will only create the graduate law or medical preferred lender list if
it is different from the graduate or undergraduate list. If a graduate law or
graduate medical preferred list is not found, a graduate list will be
displayed. If a graduate list is not found, HESC will automatically display the
undergraduate list to both graduate and undergraduate borrowers.
To add preferred lender lists, go to
College Administrators and Lenders on www.hesc.org and click on College & Lender Transactions.
Select HESC Web Transaction Processing and click on Loans via the Web. Sign
in with your user ID and password. Click on the School Tab. Select View/Update Preferred Lender List. The drop down box has these
selections:
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Graduate – Law
Graduate – Medical
PLUS
Questions or comments regarding the use of HESC’s electronic products or
services should be directed to the Solutions Team at solutions@hesc.org.
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If you have any
technical problems using HESC’s electronic services, contact the HESC Help
Desk. To contact HESC toll free, call 1-888-NYS-HESC (1-888-697-4372) and
follow the menu prompts.
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Contact HESC’s
Solution’s Team at (518) 473-0480, solutions@hesc.org
for more information regarding preferred lender list options, or click on the
attached bulletins which can be found on the College Administrators and Lenders
link on hesc.org:
http://www.hesc.com/bulletin.nsf/0/0DE08DFC17391EBC8525700A0057701C?OpenDocument&a=SL
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The electronic
Common Manual, which can be found on the College Administrators and Lenders
page on hesc.org, has been updated to include these changes. The effective date
for each policy change is also provided.
If HESC has any specific comments or there are any operational advisories
related to these policies, that information will be placed at the bottom of
each policy labeled “Guarantor Comments.”
Questions regarding Common Manual policy issues should be directed to the
Office of Counsel & Regulatory Compliance, at 1-888-NYSHESC
(1-888-697-4372) press 2-2-3-3 or (518) 473-3986.
Loan Symposium—
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For schools
(mostly directors and above) and lenders (lender reps and operations)
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1.5 day symposium
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Prime Hotel,
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Lenders—please
supply any topics you would like to Mike Williams (mwilliams@hesc.org) .
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There will be
more information about this symposium on the listservs soon.
Jim Ross was just recently confirmed as the official
new President of HESC by the legislature.