059 What’s Brewing, CCCSFAAA? 2021-01-29 - Confab Update and More News

Dana and Dennis discussed the weird week of weather in California, then covered some updates on the annual conference.  From there, they went through some new news and some holdover news from our Tuesday episode, including:

• FSA Electronic Announcement regarding tentative funding levels for 2021-2022 Campus-Based aid programs.
• CASFAA has a webinar series on tax training in February.
• NASFAA article on a change in the FAFSA coming in a couple of years (regarding the "number in college" question on the form).
• NASFAA's MVP (Most Valuable Professional) this month is Christina Tangalakis from GCC.  Congrats!
• CSAC Operations Memo regarding recycled 2020-2021 Competitive Cal Grant awards.
• An article on Inside Higher Ed reviewed a new novel, Admission, from Julie Buxbaum, which tells the story of an admissions scandal, but tells the story from the student's point of view.
• Washington Post article on student loans and the higher education funding crisis.
• Forbes article titled Six Things We Hope To See From U.S. Higher Education In 2021.

Find out more about CCCSFAAA at cccsfaaa.org.

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