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A Brief History ofA Brief History ofThe Rocky Mountain Association ofThe Rocky Mountain Association of Student Student

Financial Aid AdministratorsFinancial Aid Administrators

  

The States Represented At the 1st Meeting:

*Colorado *Idaho *Montana

*Utah *Wyoming

RMASFAA Was Organized To:

1. Promote and facilitate the coordination of student financial aid programs.

2. Advise and assist in the promotion and development of effective programs of student financial aid.

3. Promote and facilitate communication between higher education institutions and the sponsors of student aid funds.

4. Foster and promote high standards of professional preparation of financial aid administrators and counselors in institutions of higher education and other public and private agencies.

  

President Education Assistance Corporation

Clark J. Wold

   PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE

1968-69 Oscar R. "Jack" Hendrix University of Wyoming

1969-70 James Sanderson University of Utah

1970-71 Harry E. Collins University of Northern Colorado 1971-72 Richard Winder College of Idaho at Caldwell

1972-73 James Craig Montana State University

1973-74 Wayne Tesmer North Dakota State University

1974-75 Donald Scott Augustana College

1975 Mark Heffron University of Colorado-Boulder

1975-76 Sylvia Webster University of Northern Colorado

1976-77 James Bishop Northern State College

1977-78 James Gordon Colorado State College

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NATIONAL EVENTSRMASFAA HISTORY

Date incorporated and charter states.

RMASFAA OriginationColorado

IdahoMontana

UtahWyoming

Martin Luther King and Robert

Kennedy assassinated.

•Richard Nixon elected president.

•“The Graduate” Simon & Garfunkel

album               

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•Neil Armstrong became 1st person to set foot on the moon.

•Woodstock attended by 500,000+

World Series

NY Mets d. Baltimore

(4-1)

               

NATIONAL EVENTS

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NATIONAL EVENTS

•Movie-M*A*S*H

•Midnight Cowboy- Best Picture Oscar

•First Earth Day celebrated

•IBM introduces the floppy disc, bar codes

first used

RMASFAA HISTORYConference Site:

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NATIONAL EVENTS

•Sports – Nebraska NCAA football

champions (13-0-0)

•Intel develops the microprocessor

•June 30, 26th Amendment ratified lowering voting age to 18.

                               

•RMASFAA HISTORY

•Conference Site:Montana

RMASFAA HISTORY

Higher Ed Reauthorization

Created:

Basic Opportunity Grant

First federal need analysis methodology

  

NATIONAL EVENTS•New – Electronic mail started

•Video games –

               

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•Conference Site:

Wyoming

•Idaho leaves RMASFAA

•North & South Dakota join RMASFAA

NATIONAL EVENTS

•New – TCIP/IP designed

•Vietnam peace pacts signed in Paris

•Movies – The Godfather                               

RMASFAA HISTORY

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NATIONAL EVENTS*•President Nixon resigned and Gerald R. Ford sworn in as 38th U.S. President.

•People with Mia Farrow on the first cover of People.

               

RMASFAA HISTORY

Conference Site:Utah

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NATIONAL EVENTS•T.V. – Saturday Night Live premieres-

George Carlin first host

•Music – “I Honestly Love You” Olivia Newton-John

                          

RMASFAA HISTORY

Conference Site:Colorado

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Higher Education Amendments of 1976

*Reauthorized Title IV programs

*Created student consumer information

requirements

*Authorized processing of need analysis data by Multiple Data Entry

Processors(MDEs)

  

NATIONAL EVENTS

•July 4, U.S. celebrated 200th Anniversary of

Independence Day

•Sports – Dorothy Hamill figure skating gold medalist

in Winter Olympics

•  Movies – “Rocky”      

RMASFAA HISTORY

Conference Site:South Dakota

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Higher Education Amendments

*Reauthorized Title IV programs

*Created student consumer information requirements

*Authorized processing of need analysis data by

Multiple Data Entry Processors (MDE’s)

  

•Movies-"Star Wars” & “Saturday Night Fever” 

•New – Space Shuttle

RMASFAA HISTORY

NATIONAL EVENTS

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   Michael Johnson

Policy & Training

Utah Higher Education

     Assistance Authority

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   PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE

1978-79 William Jones South Dakota School of Mines

1979-80 Michael Johnson Utah Technical College

1980-81 Donald Mullen University of Montana

1981-82 Robert Pike University of Nebraska

1982-83 Mary Lou Hildebrandt Northern State College

1983-84 Gary Schultz Colby Community College

1984-85 Bruce Anderson North Dakota State University

1985-86 Richard "Dick" Koontz Bethel College

1986-87 Craig Walker Colorado State College

1987-88 Dan Klock Wyoming Technical Institute

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Middle Income Student Assistance Act (MISAA)

additional dollars to *Appropriated existing

aid programs.

*Expanded BEOG eligibility to include

middle-and upper-middle income families.

  

NATIONAL EVENTS

•First test tube baby born in Great Britain

•Movies – The Deer Hunter, Superman, Grease

•TV Shows – The Mary Tyler Moore Show

RMASFAA HISTORY

Conference Site:

North Dakota

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•Larry Bird (Indiana State)

NCAA Basketball

Championship Game

NATIONAL EVENTS•Three Mile Island Partial Meltdown

•RMASFAA HISTORY

•Conference Site:Montana

Higher Ed Reauthorization

What new loan program was created by the 1980

Higher Ed Amendments?

PLUS Program Allowed Middle-income

parents to borrow

No restrictions on income

$3,000 per year per dependent

   RMASFAA HISTORY

Nebraska joins RMASFAA

•Conference Site:

Salt Lake City, UT

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Ronald Reagan becomes 40th US

President

•Music – Call Me - Blondie

•Sports – Miracle on Ice US Hockey Team wins Olympics over

USSR

•TV Shows – Magnum PI

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

  

RMASFAA HISTORY

Kansas joins RMASFAA

•Conference Site:

Snow King Resort Jackson Hole, WY

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Movies – Raiders of the Lost Ark

• Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

Wed

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

(OBRA)

NEED was reintroduced as a

condition for eligibility for

guaranteed loans.

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

  RMASFAA HISTORY

Articles of Incorporation are filed

in North Dakota

1st Summer Institute held at University of

Colorado – Boulder, CO

Conference Site:Red Lion Hotel

Omaha, NE

NATIONAL EVENTS

Movies – E.T.

•T.V. Shows – Cheers

Music – Eye of the Tiger – Survivor

Defense Authorization

Acts

Student Financial

Assistance Technical

Amendments

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RMASFAA HISTORY

Conference Site:

Vail Manor

Vail, CO

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Population: 233,791,994

•Median Household

Income

(current dollars):  $20,885

•Wimbledon

Women:

Martina Navratilova d. A.

Jaeger (6-0 6-3)

Men: John McEnroe d. C.

Lewis (6-2 6-2 6-2)

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RMASFAA HISTORY

Conference Site:

Holiday Inn Rapid City, SD

NATIONAL EVENTS•Sports – Los

Angeles hosts the Olympic Games

•Movies – Back to the Future

•TV Shows – Miami Vice

Consolidated Omnibus Budget

Reconciliation Act

   RMASFAA HISTORY

The Initial Year of the Distinguished Service

Award Mary Heidrick

Keith Ninemire

Gary Schultz

Glenn ‘Skip’ Sharp

Larry Viterna

The Initial Year of the RMASFAA Hall of Fame

AWARDJim Gordon, Colorado

State University

Conference Site:Crown Plaza Hotel

Wichita, KS

NATIONAL EVENTS

•"What's Love Got to Do With It," by

Tina Turner

“New Coke” introduced and fails.

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Consolidated OmnibusBudget Reconciliation Act

*Credit bureau reporting required for all lenders and

guarantors

*Schools required to determine student’s Pell Grant eligibility before

certifying a GSL application

*Guarantors required to ensure a Lender-of-Last-

Resort program be available

  

RMASFAA HISTORY

Conference Site:

Holiday InnBismarck, ND

NATIONAL EVENTS

•January 20, First officially observed Martin Luther

King, Jr. Day

•Space shuttle “Challenger” exploded killing 6.

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RMASFAA HISTORY

•Conference Site: Holiday Inn

Billings, MT

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Bill Gates becomes a Billionaire

•Aretha Franklin becomes the

first woman inducted into the

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Janet DodsonVice President, Policy, Research

and EducationNational Student Loan Program

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   PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE

1988-89 Karen Webber Regis College

1989-90 Glenn "Skip" Sharp Northwest Kansas AVTS

1990-91 Robert Walker Creighton University

1991-92 John Gritts Black Hills State University

1992-93 Dale Gehring Minot State University

1993-94 Dean Obenauer Northwest College

1994-95 Larry Moeder Kansas State University

1995-96 Roger Koester Colorado School of the Mines

1996-97 Janet Dodson Doane College

1997-98 Sandy Calhoun Colorado State University

RMASFAA HISTORY

President’s Special

Award

Dan Lau, US Department of

Education, Washington DC

Paul ToneDepartment of

Education, Region VIII

Conference Site:Cornhusker Hotel Lincoln, NE

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Movie-“Rain Man” won an Oscar for the best

movie.

•Cost of a first-class

stamp: $0.22

CDs outsell vinyl records for the first

time.

FEDERAL

LEGISLATIONGSL renamed Stafford

Senator Robert T.

Stafford

(R-VT) honored by

renaming

GSL program the

“Stafford Loan”

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Student Loan Reconciliation

Amendments of 1989.

  

RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Bruce Anderson, North Dakota State University

Conference Site: Hitching Post Inn Cheyenne, WY

NATIONAL EVENTS

•After 28 years the Berlin Wall is open to the West.

•Movies:

Born on the Fourth of July, Field of Dreams

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Student Right-to-Know and Campus

Security Act

*Required institutions to

disclose:

*Certain graduation and job-placement

rates.

*Campus security policies and campus

crime statistics.

  

RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Mike Johnson

Utah Valley State College

Conference Site:Prospector Square

Park City, UT

NATIONAL EVENTS

T.V.-Seinfeld debuts

•Movie-Dances with Wolves

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

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  RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award Dick KoontzBethel College (KS)

Conference Site:Westin Inn Vail, CO

• Movie-Beauty & the Beast

Top 100 Hits of 1991:

Everything I Do I Do It For You Bryan

Adams From A Distance, Bette

Midler

Losing My Religion, R.E.M.

Play That Funky Music, Vanilla Ice

NATIONAL EVENTS

Dennis Martinez Montreal at LA 7/28/1991 2-0

Perfect Game in Baseball

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FEDERAL

LEGISLATIONHigher Education Reauthorization

*Renamed GSL Program to “Federal Family Education Loan Program,” or FFELP

loans.

*Created a Federal Unsubsidized Loan.

*Eliminated PLUS loan limits.

*Required development of common FFELP application,

promissory not, & deferment forms.

   RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Don Siemsen

Manhattan Area Technical College

Conference Site:

Howard Johnson Hotel Sioux Falls, SD

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Lawrence Welk passes away.

•Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for

the last time.

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Student Loan Reform Act

   RMASFAA HISTORY

Committee of the Year Professional Development

NASFAA Leadership Award

Rita BaylessSt. Mary’s of the

Plains (KS)

Conference Site:DoubleTree Hotel

Overland Park, KS

RMASFAA 25th Anniversary

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Mississippi River Flood

•Mark Twain-“The Mississippi River will always have its own way, no engineering

skill can persuade it to do otherwise…”

“Unforgiven” Clint Eastwood’s movie

wins the Oscar.

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

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FEDERAL LEGISLATIONBankruptcy Reform Act of 1994

Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994

Ed began unannounced federal program reviews.

  RMASFAA HISTORY

The Initial Year of the Oscar R. ‘Jack’ Hendrix

Award (Rookie of the Year)

Deb Riding, University of Utah

NASFAA Leadership Award

John Gritts, Black Hills State University

Conference Site:Holiday Inn

Fargo, ND

NATIONAL EVENTS

•January 1, North American Free Trade

Agreement took effect

•U.S. Senator Tom Daschle of SD became

the U.S. Senate minority leader

•Cheryl Crow Tops charts with “All I wanna

do”

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RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Glenn ‘Skip’ Sharp,Northwest

KansasTechnical School

Conference Site:Grouse Mountain

Lodge Whitefish, MT

NATIONAL EVENTS

U.S. rescues Mexico’s economy with $20-billion aid program.

Russian space station Mir greets first

Americans and docks with U.S. shuttle.

Toy Story tops the movie charts

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FEDERAL LEGISLATIONOmnibus Consolidated

Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996

*For the 1996-97 award year, established

maximum Federal Pell Grant of $2,470 for 1996-97

*Prohibited a student from receiving a Federal PellGrant at a school that is

ineligible to participate in the FFEL or Direct Loan programs

as the result of high cohort default rates

   RMASFAA HISTORY

Summer Institute moves to Colorado College – Colorado Springs, CO

NASFAA Leadership Award

Robert Walker,Creighton University (NE)

Conference Site:Red Lion Hotel

Omaha, NE First sightings of Corn

Cob Man

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Music-Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio

•Median Household Income

(current dollars):  $35,492

•Population: 5.760 billion

•Clinton signs line-item veto bill

•Michael Johnson fastest man in the world

MACARENA

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Tax Relief Act of 1997:

*Created the HOPE Credit

*Life Time learning Tax Credit

*Restored the deductibility for student

loan interest for 60 months

*Created new Education I.R.A.’s

   RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Donna Johnson,Norwest Banks

President’s Special Award

Gary SchultzTarget Marketing, Inc.

Conference Site:Holiday Inn

Sheridan, WY

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Comet Hale-Bopp is the closest it will be to Earth until 4397.

US spacecraft begins

exploration of Mars

• Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule .

•Mother Theresa dies at 87.

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Director of Financial AidMesa State College

Curt Martin

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PRESIDENT’S PLAQUE

1998-99 Sue Weinreis Montana State University

1999-00 Joan Zanders Northeast Community College

2000-01 Wilma Kasnic Emporia State University

2001-02 Darry Voigt Casper College

2002-03 Jim Swanson University of Nebraska

2003-04 Mary Sommers University of Nebraska

2004-05 Peg Mason Colorado School of Mines

2005-06 Sally Schuman University of Wyoming

2006-07 Cristi Easton Millard

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Higher Ed Reauthorization

Allowed Financial Aid Administrators authority to

limit borrowing

In specific majorsFor years in school

Allowed Financial Aid Administrators authority to

refuse to certify a loan For students they believe

have no intention of repaying

   RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership

Award

Larry Moeder, Kansas State

University

Conference Site:DoubleTree World

ArenaColorado Springs, CO

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Movies:  Titanic becomes the

highest-grossing film of all time

•Science:  The FDA approves the male

impotence drug Viagra.

•Europeans agree on single currency,

the euro.

   RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership NASFAA

Leadership Award Roger Koester

Colorado School of Mines

Conference Site:

Dixie Center

St. George, UT

NATIONAL EVENTS

The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug with more drastic millennial

theorists warning of Armageddon.

The first human hand transplant is performed

in the U.S.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average

closes above 11,000 for the first time

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Direct Lending introduced loan

discounts:

*1% reduction in origination fees

*0.25% interest rate reduction for auto debit

Why did DL introduce these discounts?

*Y2K loomed as a ticking time bomb.

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Lenders sued Department of Education

*To block ED from offering loan discounts without

offering similar discounts to FFELP borrowers

ED countered

*Would save students money by reducing costs

*Necessary for parity with FFELP discounts

  RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Dean Obenauer, Creighton

University (NE)

• Conference Site:

Holiday Inn Rapid City, SD

NATIONAL EVENTS

•U.S. Presidential Election closest in decades. Florida

recounts take months.

•I LOVEYOU Virus trashes computers

world wide

•Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player to win a Grand Slam in

Golf

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation

Act

*Increased contribution level for Education IRAs

*Qualified Tuition Programexpanded

*Student loan interest deduction 60-month limit

repealed and increased the income phase-out for use

of the deduction

  RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Phil Van HornWyoming Student Loan

Corporation

Conference Site:Hyatt Regency Wichita, KS

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Anthrax scare rivets nation, as letters are

sent to various media and government

officials.

•Artificial heart implanted in man.

•Record of the Year: "Beautiful Day,“ U2

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Higher Education Relief Opportunities for

Students Act

*Gives Secretary of Education broad

authority to waive regulatory or statutory

requirements to respond to the

needs of students, families, and student loan borrowers in the

aftermathof the

September 11 attack.

   RMASFAA HISTORY

Initial Year for the Ron Smout Award for

Teaching and Mentoring

Larry Viterna, USA Funds Services

NASFAA Leadership Award

Bob Neas, North Dakota State University

Conference Site:Radisson Inn Bismarck, ND

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Movies- Spider Man, Lord of the Rings

•Queen Elizabeth

dies in UK

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Supreme Court

Upholds Affirmative Action in University

Admissions

   RMASFAA HISTORY

Summer Institute held at Regis University,

Denver, CO

NASFAA Leadership Award

Sue Weinreis, Montana State

University - Billings

Conference Site:Big Sky Resort

Big Sky, MT

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Deaths

*John Ritter

*Bob Hope

*Fred Rogers

•Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean

•Apple Computer introduces iTune Music Store

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   RMASFAA HISTORY

Summer Institute relocated to Colorado School of Mines,

Golden CO

NASFAA Leadership AwardSandy Calhoun,

Colorado State University

Conference Site:Embassy Suites Omaha, NE

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Deadliest in History

Magnitude=9.0

•2004 Olympics in Athens

* 201 nations *10,625 athletes

•Movies-Shrek 2

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Higher Education Reconciliation Act

HERA is a HERO

* Stafford max to $3,500

*Grad PLUS

*Broadened teacher loan forgiveness

HERA is no HERO

   RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Joan Zanders,Northeast Community College

(NE)

President’s Special Award

Roger KoesterColorado School of Mines

Conference Site:Snow King Resort

Jackson Hole, WY

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Worldwide aid pours in to help the eleven Asian countries devastated by the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami.

•About 11 million Iraqis turn out to select their first permanent Parliament since the overthrow of

Saddam Hussein.•Record of the Year:

"Here We Go Again," Ray Charles & Norah Jones

Katrina- Historic destruction

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

*ACGGrant

*SMART Grant

   RMASFAA HISTORY

NASFAA Leadership Award

Jim Swanson Colorado College

President’s Special Award

Brett Lief

NCHELP

Conference Site:Sheraton City Centre

Hotel Salt Lake City, UT

NATIONAL EVENTS

•Spacecraft “New Horizons” launched for

nine-year journey to study Pluto

• Dow Jones IndustrialAverage closes above 12,000 for the 1st time

•Academy Award, Best Picture: Crash

•Korea tests its first Nuclear weapon

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

College Cost Reduction & Access Act (CCRA)

   RMASFAA HISTORY

Conference Site:

Beaver Run Resort Breckenridge, CO

NATIONAL EVENTS

Most Livable Countries 2007

1.Iceland2.Norway

3.Australia4.Canada5.Ireland6.Sweden

7.Switzerland8.Japan

9.Netherlands10.France

*Published annually by the UN. Criteria for calculating

rankings include:life expectancy, adult

literacy, school enrollment, educational attainment, and

adjusted real income.

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FEDERAL LEGISLATIONEnsuring Continued

Access to Student Loans Act

*Raised Stafford loan limits

*Established new optional repayment terms for Parent

PLUS*Eased credit criteria for

Parent & Grad PLUS loans

*Loosened eligibility restriction on who is eligible

for LLR loans

   RMASFAA HISTORY

Summer Institute held at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT

NASFAA Leadership

Award

Janet Dodson National

Student Loan Program

Conference Site:

Sheraton Sioux Falls & Convention Center

Sioux Falls, SD

RMASFAA Celebrates 40 Years!

NATIONAL EVENTS

•National Mortagage Crisis

erupts

•Oil breaks $100 /barrel barrier

•Gas Prices Clear $4.00 Gallon

• First Women nominated to Republican

presidential ticket

•African American wins democratic nomination for

president

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CongratulationsCongratulations RMASFAA RMASFAA on 40 years of service to on 40 years of service to

students, financial aid, and students, financial aid, and training of colleagues.  training of colleagues.  

Best Wishes on many more Best Wishes on many more years of success and years of success and

serviceservice!!

RMASFAA 40th Anniversary RMASFAA 40th Anniversary CommitteeCommittee