This webcast will be of benefit to enrollment management and admissions professionals who would like to better understand how to partner more strategically with their financial aid offices.

• Determining Your Model
  • Trends and policy changes that necessitate stronger admissions/financial aid partnerships
  • Organizational structures
  • Determining the extent of financial aid responsibilities for your admissions team: questions to ask
  • Institutional examples
• Implementing the Model
  • How to approach your financial aid office
  • Implementation of the model
  • Training and resources
  • Maintaining a positive ongoing partnership
  • Institutional examples

There is no one-size-fits-all solution for partnering between admissions and financial aid. In this webcast, we will explore how two institutions have structured their admissions/financial aid partnerships to better meet prospective student and family needs:

Model A: Partial Integration
In this model, Admissions counselors have only a “visa,” so to speak, into the Financial Aid realm: they are entrusted with some of the responsibilities and tasks that have historically been Financial Aid functions, but the extent to which they can go within certain processes—such as Verifications, aid counseling, and packaging—is limited. These admissions counselors are focused on the financial aid process and outreach as it impacts recruitment and prospective students.

Model B: Full Integration
By contrast, in this fully integrated model, blended Admissions/Fin Aid counselors are empowered to perform many more of the functions that have traditionally been functions of Financial Aid and recruit new students, which virtually eliminates the boundary between the two offices for key selected staff. For instance: Admissions/Fin Aid counselors are able to conduct Verifications and Professional Judgments, as well as provide Aid counseling to both prospective AND current students. In this model they are true “dual citizens” of both financial aid and admissions.