From the 2008 President, Kristin Shear

Challenges and Choices

(With the circulation of the Green Lights, Red Tape report in December 2007 right before the conference, I changed my planned remarks to deliver to the membership at the December annual business meeting. The report prompted me to think, deeply, about my role as CCCSFAAA's President for 2008, and to begin openly discussing choices that we make as financial aid professionals each and every day in our work. The challenges we often discuss, and the Governor's budget cuts in the January proposed budget just add to the list of possible challenges facing us in 2008 and 2009. But we cannot get bogged down with those challenges and discussing them. We must also discuss the choices that we make, or that our institution's make, that guide our daily delivery of service and aid to our students. "Open access" is the core of our Community College mission in this state, and this open access mission MUST apply to financial aid services as well. We are remiss in our roles as aid professionals if we create (intentionally or unintentionally), barriers to service and aid delivery. So I offer my remarks again, from December, to you the membership...) read more...

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