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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Good Day ctcLink FA Users, </span>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Below please find some general updates you may find useful!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">CARESII and WSAC Emergency Aid for Undocumented Students<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A system-wide announcement regarding global configuration for these funds was sent out last week. It is attached for your reference if you are not on the Financial Aid Director list serv, dirfinaid@lists.ctc.edu.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2022 Aid Year Launch</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Many colleges have already kicked off their new aid year set up and most DG4 colleges met with our support team to get their ISIR Processing Jobsets created.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Tickets are being used to track the progress of each college’s new aid year set up and processing. FA Support has designated time slots for processing your current and future year jobsets and will provide
you with that time slot in the ticket.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For packaging, there are planned regulatory updates and patches for PeopleSoft tentatively slated for implementation in mid-May AND another in mid-June. If your college is ready to begin packaging, you may
begin now, but you will not be able to originate Pell or loans until the last regulatory updates for COD and patches to reverse the “ASLA” are implemented in Production in mid-June.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FA Support will send an announcement regarding the release of the latest patches and updates for Financial Aid in PeopleSoft when they are applied to the Production environment. State Board will hold sessions
to provide an overview of these updates. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lastly, keep an eye out from WSAC’s announcement of Maximum Award Amounts for adjusting any packaging later this Spring:
<a href="https://wsac.wa.gov/FAA-resources">https://wsac.wa.gov/FAA-resources</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">E Lists aka ListServ Info</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">State Board maintains a variety of user and topic specific eLists that you are welcome to subscribe to. Here is the link to the master page.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We advise ctcLink FA users to subscribe to the
<i>ctcLinkfinaidsupport l</i>ist. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/it-support/mailman-lists/">https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/it-support/mailman-lists/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://lists.ctc.edu/mailman/listinfo">https://lists.ctc.edu/mailman/listinfo</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">WorkFirst Item Type Review</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">An active review of WorkFirst Item types is underway. We will reach out to college program administrators before making changes. The goal is to move toward a more global administration of these funds. Please
stay tuned for details. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">PCD Environment</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The college test environment, PDC is scheduled for refresh on 4/2/21. We encourage colleges to do active testing of their new aid year set up in that environment. You can also test /practice/train in that
environment. Please note the last time it was refreshed was 2/21/21. You may find it necessary to request security access in this environment that your local security admin has the ability to grant.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#777777"><a href="https://cs-pcd.peoplesoft-nonprod-aws.ctclink.sbctc.edu/cspcd/signon.html">https://cs-pcd.peoplesoft-nonprod-aws.ctclink.sbctc.edu/cspcd/signon.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Query Organization</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Financial Aid queries have begun moving into topic related folders. We encourage you to start exploring FA queries by looking them up via a specific folder. We hope you find this useful.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">There is a “FINANCIAL AID” folder and now, additional folders that begin with “FA”.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">PeopleSoft Security Resources</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Below please find security resources on the ctcLink Reference Center. Keep in mind that the best resource is your trained local security administrator. They will have access to queries that are designed to
return the necessary roles needed for viewing/editing/processing pages. They can also provide you with a list of your staff members’ current security roles and access by using State Board delivered queries.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">These queries are also referenced in the resources below.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://ctclinkreferencecenter.ctclink.us/m/56084">http://ctclinkreferencecenter.ctclink.us/m/56084</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://ctclinkreferencecenter.ctclink.us/m/56084/l/1192775-security-and-the-solution-validation-environment#using-query-in-svx-to-support-role-assignment-verification">http://ctclinkreferencecenter.ctclink.us/m/56084/l/1192775-security-and-the-solution-validation-environment#using-query-in-svx-to-support-role-assignment-verification</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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