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<h1>Webinar: How Our Institutions are Accommodating and Navigating the Delay in Higher Education Financial Aid for 2024
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">Thursday, March 28, 2024 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.,
<a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H8mQgLIDRPSkLvupMKMBaA#/registration">
Register to attend free webinar</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">. |
</span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The event will be recorded in case you cannot attend.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">This
<a href="https://bit.ly/FAFSA_delay_2024">free webinar</a></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">, presented by the League of Education Voters, will
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">give a high-level view of steps Washington state higher education institutions – two-year and four-year, public and private – are taking to help students
cope with the financial aid delays and how students and families can navigate the current situation.
</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">Many higher education</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> institutions</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">
rely on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, to help them determine how much of their institutional money to give out in the form of grants that students will not have to repay.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">Unfortunately, the troubled federal rollout of the new FAFSA form — and the revision of the formula for determining who gets federal financial
aid — means that any attempt to offer a price quote to current or recently admitted students may be just a rough estimate.
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">Live Spanish interpretation and closed captioning in English will be provided.
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="xmsolistparagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#232333;background:white">Moderated by Arik Korman, League of Education Voters Interim Co-CEO / Communications
Director </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<h2>Confirmed Panelists<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">Sam Alvarado (he/they/she), a senior at Moses Lake High School in the Moses Lake School District and a member of the Association of Washington Student Leaders
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">Athaliah Ioane (she/her), a sophomore at Whitworth University double majoring in Political Science and Communications - Journalism and a member of the Washington
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">Rebecca Tibbetts (she/her), a graduate of Walla Walla Community College who is now working on a Master of Arts in Higher Education Student Affairs at Grand Canyon
University, the Columbia Regional Coordinator for the Washington Student Engagement Networks, and the Food Pantry Coordinator at Walla Walla Community College Ruben Flores, Executive Director at the Council of Presidents
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">Dr. Terri Standish-Kuon, President & CEO at Independent Colleges of Washington
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">Becky Thompson, Director of Student Financial Assistance at the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC)
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;background:white">Dr. Joyce D. Hammer, Deputy Executive Director for Education at the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.sbctc.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:blue">sbctc.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003561;mso-ligatures:none">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764;mso-ligatures:none">• Twitter:
</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://twitter.com/SBCTCWashington"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:blue">@SBCTCWashington</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#003764;mso-ligatures:none">
• Facebook: </span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/wasbctc/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:blue">@WASBCTC</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F3864;mso-ligatures:none">SBCTC Vision:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F3864;mso-ligatures:none">“Leading with racial equity, our colleges maximize student potential and transform lives within a culture of belonging that advances racial, social, and economic justice in service to our
diverse communities.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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