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Corrective Action Plan: The University has updated and implemented revised procedures. Effective December 26, 2023, the University has begun notifying the borrower in writing with the appropriate documentation when the Perkins loan has been paid in full. Effective January 1, 2024, the institution ha...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has updated and implemented revised procedures. Effective December 26, 2023, the University has begun notifying the borrower in writing with the appropriate documentation when the Perkins loan has been paid in full. Effective January 1, 2024, the institution has further incorporated reconciliation tasks into its procedures to ensure paid in full notifications have been sent as required to borrowers and will retain electronic copies of the notifications in the University’s records. Implementation Date: January 1, 2024, for improved processes and controls Responsible Persons: Yvette Martinez, Senior Director of Financial Affairs and Controller Diana Gonzalez, Director of Student Financial & Treasury Services
Corrective Action Plan: The University will retroactively mail paid-in-full notices to all students who paid their loans in full during the audit period. We have already mailed notices for loans paid in 2022 & 2023 and expect to complete 2021 by February. Relevant policies and procedures will be rev...
Corrective Action Plan: The University will retroactively mail paid-in-full notices to all students who paid their loans in full during the audit period. We have already mailed notices for loans paid in 2022 & 2023 and expect to complete 2021 by February. Relevant policies and procedures will be revised to ensure future paid accounts are handled accordingly by utilizing a monthly paid-in-full report from ECSI. Management will conduct a second level review to ensure that the University is in compliance with the requirements. Implementation Date: February 2024 Responsible Person: Blanca Garcia, Director of Financial Services
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The vendor has revised its services to include the paid-in-full letter process and has sent paid if full letters to all Perkins borrowers who were missed. Management will conduct a second level revi...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The vendor has revised its services to include the paid-in-full letter process and has sent paid if full letters to all Perkins borrowers who were missed. Management will conduct a second level review to ensure that the University is in compliance with the requirements. Implementation Date: November 2023 Responsible Person: Lisa Davis, Director, Bursar Office
Corrective Action Plan: The University is investigating the procurement of required locked, fireproof file cabinets and is in the process of requesting a formal quote for management approval to purchase. Implementation Date: December 2024 (Tentatively) Responsible Person: Lori Peterson, Executive Di...
Corrective Action Plan: The University is investigating the procurement of required locked, fireproof file cabinets and is in the process of requesting a formal quote for management approval to purchase. Implementation Date: December 2024 (Tentatively) Responsible Person: Lori Peterson, Executive Director and Controller – Accounting and Financial Management
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented a review at the start of each term to ensure internal systems (Peoplesoft) are updated with the appropriate number of break days to ensure the accuracy of break days used in Return of Title IV calculations. The University is implementing an enha...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented a review at the start of each term to ensure internal systems (Peoplesoft) are updated with the appropriate number of break days to ensure the accuracy of break days used in Return of Title IV calculations. The University is implementing an enhanced secondary review process for Return of Title IV determinations to ensure accurate calculations and the timely return of funds. The University will implement a process to ensure evidence of participation exists for students who attend all courses via the online platforms. Implementation Dates: Beginning January 2024 with completion May 2024 Responsible Persons: Kimberley Wells, Director of Financial Aid & Scholarships John Robert, Associate Director of Financial Aid & Scholarships Beth Tolan, Associate Vice President of Financial Aid & Scholarships
Corrective Action Plan: (1) The University will develop a process to identify all institutional charges and create a master list that will categorize the charges into allowable and non-allowable charges. The master list will be utilized to determine which institutional charges may be included in the...
Corrective Action Plan: (1) The University will develop a process to identify all institutional charges and create a master list that will categorize the charges into allowable and non-allowable charges. The master list will be utilized to determine which institutional charges may be included in the calculation of Return of Title IV. (2) The University will coordinate with the Institute of Global Engagement and Online Functional Support to obtain evidence of academic engagement utilizing the learning management software system for students in online only course and confirm active participation for study-abroad coursework. (3) The University will establish a review process to ensure consistency and accuracy in R2T4 calculations. and conduct regular internal audits of a sample of R2T4 calculations to identify errors or discrepancies. Implementation Date: March 2024 Responsible Person: Frank Gomez, Associate Director, SFA
Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid will create a reconciliation process that will identify all FSEOG recipients for a given aid year. This reconciliation process will include a report/query that can be distributed weekly and on demand to identify any discrepancies t...
Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid will create a reconciliation process that will identify all FSEOG recipients for a given aid year. This reconciliation process will include a report/query that can be distributed weekly and on demand to identify any discrepancies that will be worked timely. The office will also assign a staff member to conduct R2T4 quality control. The staff member will be responsible for running a query and creating a report categorizing the type of returns (i.e. – standard R2T4, Post Withdrawal, etc.) with an estimated time for completion on a weekly basis. Implementation Date: March 2024 Responsible Person: Frank Gomez, Associate Director, SFA
Corrective Action Plan: The University previously misinterpreted the regulation related to enrollment in programs offered in modules. Training has been conducted on this topic. In addition, the Registrar has been granted SIS access to update scheduled breaks of five or more days. During the calculat...
Corrective Action Plan: The University previously misinterpreted the regulation related to enrollment in programs offered in modules. Training has been conducted on this topic. In addition, the Registrar has been granted SIS access to update scheduled breaks of five or more days. During the calculation process the financial aid counselor completing the R2T4 will ensure that the days calculated are correct or, if not, will update the worksheet with the correct number of days. The University will ensure that R2T4 calculations are completed in a timely manner to ensure that funding is returned for students within the 45-day time frame. Implementation Date: 08/2023 Responsible Persons: Scott Lapinski, Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management/Director of Financial Aid Joe Sanders Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management/Registrar
Corrective Action Plan: The University now reviews the Cost of Attendance for students as it gets closer to the start of the semester to ensure that there is a variety of Cost of Attendances instead of just mostly full time Cost of Attendance. This will help ensure that the COA amounts are correct b...
Corrective Action Plan: The University now reviews the Cost of Attendance for students as it gets closer to the start of the semester to ensure that there is a variety of Cost of Attendances instead of just mostly full time Cost of Attendance. This will help ensure that the COA amounts are correct before disbursements are made. The University’s Financial Aid & Scholarships Office will also work with the Registrar’s Office to ensure that all online programs are input into the Cost of Attendance formulas before the start of the academic year to further ensure that Cost of Attendance calculations are correct. Implementation Date: 08/2023 Responsible Persons: Scott Lapinski, Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management/Director of Financial Aid Joe Sanders Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management/Registrar
Corrective Action Plan: The University has revised the procedures to include additional procedural details. Management will conduct a second level review of the R2T4 new year system set up. Additionally, a quality control review of ten percent of the R2T4 calculations will be performed throughout th...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has revised the procedures to include additional procedural details. Management will conduct a second level review of the R2T4 new year system set up. Additionally, a quality control review of ten percent of the R2T4 calculations will be performed throughout the year to ensure accuracy and compliance with the R2T4 requirements. Implementation Date: February 2024 Responsible Persons: Alejandra Gonzalez, Senior Associate Director Marcia Osman, Associate Director
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Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The policy manual will be revised to include detailed procedures. The steps involved in testing and reviewing Cost of Attendance components for each population of students during aid year roll-over ...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The policy manual will be revised to include detailed procedures. The steps involved in testing and reviewing Cost of Attendance components for each population of students during aid year roll-over will be expanded to include secondary review of all COA components to show they are assigning correctly for all variations of COA structures. In addition, management will review to ensure we are following federal requirements. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Person: Frankin Foxworthy, Director of Technology, Office of Financial Aid
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The policy manual will be revised to include detailed procedures. Management will conduct a second-level review to ensure the University complies with the requirements. Relief under the CARES Act ex...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The policy manual will be revised to include detailed procedures. Management will conduct a second-level review to ensure the University complies with the requirements. Relief under the CARES Act expired at the end of the payment period, including the date of May 11, 2023, per General-23-46. No further corrective action plan is needed for relief under the CARES Act. To address issues of Title IV funds not being returned within the required time frame and incorrectly calculated amounts of Title IV funds to be returned, Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid (OSFA) has added a step to the process that includes a quality control review of no less than 20 percent of a randomly selected sample of all R2T4 reviews. In addition, OSFA has experienced technical limitations in the current custom-developed, mainframe-based system relying on manual processes for R2T4 calculations. The University is replacing the custom-developed, mainframe-based financial aid management system with a vendor-provided, cloud-based system. This will reduce the reliance on manual calculation of returns with a vendor system to assist with R2T4 calculations. By implementing a more robust quality control process and replacing our current mainframe-based financial aid system with a vendor-provided, cloud-based system, we will significantly enhance our R2T4 process to ensure compliance with Title IV requirements. Implementation Dates: Rolling system implementation from February 2024 through August 2024 Responsible Person: Diane Todd Sprague, Assistant Vice Provost of Scholarships and Financial Aid
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The policy manual has been revised to include detailed procedures. The University will build Cost of Attendance and place in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. Before financial aid is disbursed to student...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The policy manual has been revised to include detailed procedures. The University will build Cost of Attendance and place in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. Before financial aid is disbursed to students the Office of Financial Aid will rebuilt budgets which includes COA to ensure they match all COA’s for all programs. This process will ensure that students are eligible for the aid awarded and disbursed. OIT has implemented new reports to determine PELL, FSEOG, and Direct Loan eligibility and will be reviewed monthly to ensure accuracy of eligible awards and aggregate limits for all financial aid students. Implementation Date: March 2024 Responsible Persons: Laurie Rosenkrantz, Associate Director Karen Krause, Executive Director Lea Anne Sikora, Associate Director
Corrective Action Plan: The Financial Aid and Scholarships Office at Texas Tech University will collaborate closely with the Provost’s office to create a strategy for more precisely recording the final date of academic engagement for students enrolled in online courses. Implementation Date: January ...
Corrective Action Plan: The Financial Aid and Scholarships Office at Texas Tech University will collaborate closely with the Provost’s office to create a strategy for more precisely recording the final date of academic engagement for students enrolled in online courses. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Persons: Robert Hamilton and Bobbie Brown
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Corrective Action Plan: After research, it was determined that the issue was limited to our co-enrollment program with Austin Community College (ACC Pathways). Procedures have been updated in our Systems Team to include recalculating the COA for all co-enrollment students after census. As a double c...
Corrective Action Plan: After research, it was determined that the issue was limited to our co-enrollment program with Austin Community College (ACC Pathways). Procedures have been updated in our Systems Team to include recalculating the COA for all co-enrollment students after census. As a double check, our Program Specialist Team will also review all co-enrollment students to ensure that the COA was recalculated correctly. Implementation Date: September 2023 Responsible Person: Dede Gonzales, Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The Office of Student Accounting will share the entire list of all completed R2T4 calculations with the Financial Aid department for a secondary review. The Office of Student Accounting will also de...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The Office of Student Accounting will share the entire list of all completed R2T4 calculations with the Financial Aid department for a secondary review. The Office of Student Accounting will also develop and implement a new report that compares R2T4 “Revised Award Amounts” to the actual account activity to ensure that Title IV aid adjustments needed as a result of a R2T4 calculation are completed. The policy manual will be revised to include detailed procedures. Management will conduct a second level review to ensure that the University is in compliance with the requirements. Implementation Date: February 2024 Responsible Persons: Mr. Errol Thomas, Executive Director Student Accounting Dr. Nickolaus Cioci, Dean of Student Records Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The university has filled the vacant position of Senior Accountant responsible for the processing of Title IV credit balances. The Senior Accountant will process refunds daily to ensure compliance with Title IV credit balance timeline regulations. Management will conduct a second level review to ensure that the University is in compliance with the requirements. Implementation Date: Spring 2024 Responsible Person: Mr. Errol Thomas, Executive Director of Student Accounting
Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Student Financial Success has worked with the Office of Information Technology to deliver student loan disbursement information via the student portal. A tab has been created that allows students to receive specific disbursement information related to their stud...
Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Student Financial Success has worked with the Office of Information Technology to deliver student loan disbursement information via the student portal. A tab has been created that allows students to receive specific disbursement information related to their student loans. In addition, the disbursement notification process has been established to ensure all students receive a disbursement notification before disbursements are made to student accounts. Our policy now requires, before disbursement, the generation of disbursement notifications made by the Senior Systems Analyst. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Person: Dr. Latisha Addison, Executive Director Student Financial Success Corrective Action Plan: The University has implemented significant process enhancements in this area. The University has updated the charges associated with the university installment plan in the ERP system to be designated as an unallowable charge. This update will ensure that Title IV aid will not pay towards those charges. Management will conduct a second level review to ensure that the University is in compliance with the requirements. Implementation Date: February 2024 Responsible Person: Mr. Errol Thomas, Executive Director of Student Accounting
Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Student Financial Success has worked with the Office of Technology to develop an effective budget rule in the Banner system that accurately calculates books and supplies for students based on hours of enrollment. We have identified and rectified issues with bann...
Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Student Financial Success has worked with the Office of Technology to develop an effective budget rule in the Banner system that accurately calculates books and supplies for students based on hours of enrollment. We have identified and rectified issues with banner that prevented identified students from being recalculated to determine appropriate hours of attendance for books and supplies. The Office of Student Financial Success has developed a new Budget Component report that identifies the correct credit hours from both the student enrollment and financial aid banner modules, which assist with the recalculation process ensuring accurate books and supplies for all students. In addition, we have also increased the number of times we recalculate the budget components at the beginning of each semester. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Person: Dr. Latisha Addison, Executive Director Student Financial Success Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Student Financial Success has created written procedures to include the process for recalculating Federal Pell Grant eligibility after the final student add/drop course deadline. In addition, we have also increased the number of times we recalculate Federal Pell Grant eligibility for students at the beginning of each semester based on add/drop processes. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Person: Dr. Latisha Addison, Executive Director Student Financial Success Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Student Financial Success has added to its written policy a process for determining student loan eligibility manually. The system functions to identify students near aggregate limits based on FAFSA data received. Students who have reached their aggregate loan limits are identified through a newly created loan limit Argos report. Student financial aid counselors review the students on the report and compare them with data pulled from NSLDS to determine any remaining eligibility for each student. The ability to award a student more than they are eligible for is a manual process, and in the case of the student in the finding, it was overridden by a staff member. Policies have been implemented to ensure the accuracy of student eligibility identification by financial aid counselors before awarding a student loan manually. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Person: Dr. Latisha Addison, Executive Director Student Financial Success Corrective Action Plan: The Office of Student Financial Success has ensured staff training as it relates to manual SAP calculations as needed based on student circumstances. The SFS Office has identified that some students who have breaks in enrollment may not be included in yearly SAP run processes. Our policy now states that a student who has not been enrolled for more than a year must have a manual SAP calculation completed before being awarded financial aid to ensure accuracy and compliance. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Person: Dr. Latisha Addison, Executive Director Student Financial Success Corrective Action Plan: During the fall of 2022 and some of the spring of 2023, the Office of Student Financial Success did not have a staff member in place to ensure the accuracy of data being pulled in from the Department of Education. Since then, proper staff has been hired and trained to ensure the accuracy of data files being loaded into the Banner student information system. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Person: Dr. Latisha Addison, Executive Director Student Financial Success
Corrective Action Plan: Once the discrepancy was identified in July of 2023, corrections were made for the next satisfactory academic progress review in August of 2023 and going forward. The new procedures put into place in August are as follows: the SAP table used for calculating maximum time frame...
Corrective Action Plan: Once the discrepancy was identified in July of 2023, corrections were made for the next satisfactory academic progress review in August of 2023 and going forward. The new procedures put into place in August are as follows: the SAP table used for calculating maximum time frame will be reviewed by the Associate Director and Director over Advising in conjunction with the Registrar’s office to ensure there are no discrepancies in degree program hour requirements. The policy manual has been revised to include procedures. Implementation Date: August 2023 Responsible Person: Delisa Falks, Assistant Vice President
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Corrective Action Plan: To address accurate reporting of scheduled breaks in the future, we will update our R2T4 policy and procedure to ensure that weekends are included in the scheduled breaks. Our updated policy and procedure will include information regarding how the break is determined. The Ass...
Corrective Action Plan: To address accurate reporting of scheduled breaks in the future, we will update our R2T4 policy and procedure to ensure that weekends are included in the scheduled breaks. Our updated policy and procedure will include information regarding how the break is determined. The Assistant Director of Operations will enter these dates on SOATBRK each aid year with secondary confirmation of accuracy by the Director of Financial Aid. The Office of Financial Aid did not have update access to the Banner form (SFAWDRL) used to process R2T4 calculations which caused inaccurate processing of students in modules. We have now properly configured our student information system so that the R2T4 processing staff have update access to this form in order to correctly report the start and end dates for students enrolled in modules. This will accurately calculate their percentage of attendance. Our current R2T4 procedures include a monitoring control to ensure accurate return of aid after an R2T4 is calculated and return is determined. The current process is reviewed by the same R2T4 processor who calculated the return. We will revise this procedure to have secondary review by the Assistant Director of Operations or in the absence of the Assistant Director, the Director will conduct this secondary review. We will review all students in which an R2T4 was calculated, not only those who had a return processed. This review will be documented in RHACOMM. In addition to the above procedural updates, the Office of Financial Aid is re-calculating R2T4 for the students impacted in this sample. The policy and procedure will be revised to include these updated procedures. Implementation Date: May 2024 Responsible Persons: Amanda Petrosian, Director of Financial Aid Josiah Mendoza, Assistant Director of Operations
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Corrective Action Plan: In a typical academic year, we package prior to the new aid year COA being finalized. This means that we roll the prior year's components when initially packaging students. Once the new aid year's COA is finalized, we re-run COA to update these components on all students prio...
Corrective Action Plan: In a typical academic year, we package prior to the new aid year COA being finalized. This means that we roll the prior year's components when initially packaging students. Once the new aid year's COA is finalized, we re-run COA to update these components on all students prior to disbursement each term. This involves updating the budget component screen in our student information system. In 2022-2023, we rolled the 2021-2022 budget components and did not accurately update the components in Banner, which led to lower COA for students enrolled in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. This was not identified until the Summer of 2023 when entering the weekly summer budget components. The Office of Financial Aid will implement a new aid year checklist specific to the review of Cost of Attendance that has a sign-off for each step of the process. The Executive Director and Director have responsibility in creation of the annual Cost of Attendance. The COA is shared with the Vice President of Enrollment Management prior to any awarding occurs. After the creation of the COA chart, the Director and Assistant Director will ensure accuracy of the chart in comparison to the COA methodology. The Director of Financial Aid will enter these components into Banner with secondary review by the Assistant Director. We will provide screenshots with the checklist that the COA chart matches Banner. When our IT staff runs COA prior to disbursement, we will test a sample of students to ensure budgets match the COA chart and RORALGS. The policy and procedure will be revised to include these updated procedures. The 2024-2025 aid year cycle is an atypical cycle with the delayed release of the FAFSA. We will not receive ISIR records until at least February 2024. We will not package students until after the 2024-2025 COA is finalized. This means that we will not roll the 2023-2024 COA. We will follow our new updated procedures and checklist to ensure accurate calculations and reporting. Implementation Date: March 2024 Responsible Persons: Kathy Wright, Executive Director of Student Financial Assistance Services Amanda Petrosian, Director of Financial Aid Josiah Mendoza, Assistant Director of Operations
Corrective Action Plan: The University has adjusted its practices to verify the academic engagement after resigning through online activity reports for students enrolled in distance education courses. Additional training is being provided to faculty members on the importance of the last day of atten...
Corrective Action Plan: The University has adjusted its practices to verify the academic engagement after resigning through online activity reports for students enrolled in distance education courses. Additional training is being provided to faculty members on the importance of the last day of attendance records. Implementation Date: January 2024 Responsible Person: Amy Wilson, Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships
Corrective Action Plan: Lamar University has already begun making strides to improve processes to ensure Return to Title IV (R2T4) funds are being reviewed and calculated correctly as it relates to return calculations. With turnover in staffing, we have worked to identify training materials availabl...
Corrective Action Plan: Lamar University has already begun making strides to improve processes to ensure Return to Title IV (R2T4) funds are being reviewed and calculated correctly as it relates to return calculations. With turnover in staffing, we have worked to identify training materials available and schedule our FA Specialist Sr. the opportunity to attend the Return to Title IV training offered through NASFAA. Moving forward, any future staff will be required to attend this course to gain a better understanding of the process. We were provided a list of schools with unique modules for support or guidance with our processes. Once these resources and trainings are available, the Standard Operating Procedure manual will be updated to reflect process improvements. IT is working with Student Aid to review reports and streamline the data used to identify students with changes to enrollment. This will allow a quicker turnaround time for processing students’ accounts. A process has been implemented with Student Aid and the Registrar’s office to ensure that all changes to the academic calendar are reported so that adjustments can be made. This will ensure that an accurate calculation of days is being used. In addition, we have begun reviewing our current Course Program of Study process and look to implement a change. This will allow us to freeze a student’s CPOS, which will avoid a student having a change in aid eligible enrollment after the R2T4 adjustments have been made. Implementation Date: August 2024 Responsible Person: Megan Begnaud, Director of Student Aid
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Corrective Action Plan: The Student Aid office has worked with IT to automate the communications identified in the audit report. All processes are successfully running with the new system. Student Aid is also reviewing disbursement communications. Based on testing it was identified that students wer...
Corrective Action Plan: The Student Aid office has worked with IT to automate the communications identified in the audit report. All processes are successfully running with the new system. Student Aid is also reviewing disbursement communications. Based on testing it was identified that students were being notified based on the traditional student schedule, but additional disbursements for online students were being missed. We are actively working to implement disbursement communications for all parts of terms. It was identified that the Nursing Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) was initially set up in the system as a grant, which did not cause the missing promissory note to prevent disbursement. This NFLP has been corrected in the Banner system from grant to loan, which will trigger the systems set in place for disbursement to students receiving the NFLP. Implementation Date: February 2024 Responsible Person: Megan Begnaud, Director of Student Aid
Corrective Action Plan: A process with the Student Aid office exists for aid clean up that is run after Census Day for each part of term identifying students that had a variation in payouts versus packaged budget. In reviewing the 2022-2023 aid year, it appears that these reports and processes were ...
Corrective Action Plan: A process with the Student Aid office exists for aid clean up that is run after Census Day for each part of term identifying students that had a variation in payouts versus packaged budget. In reviewing the 2022-2023 aid year, it appears that these reports and processes were not being worked due to staff turnover. Working the students identified on this report is part of scheduled processes. Student Aid is working with IT to have these reports automated and scheduled out for delivery to ensure that it is received and worked in a timely manner. Implementation Date: February 2024 Responsible Person: Megan Begnaud, Director of Student Aid
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