Student Development Services Orientation Workshop

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Student Development ServicesOrientation Workshop

• Thursday, November 30, 2006
• NC Community College System Office

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Ken Whitehurst

• Introductions of Student Services
• Staff Members

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Student Development Services
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Wanda White

• Student Development Services

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Student Development Services Functions

• Preparation for academic success
• Academic support services for enrolled students
• Enrollment management
• Administrative services
• Transition to work and further education

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Student Development ServicesPreparation for
Success

• Admissions counseling
• Career counseling
• Personal counseling
• Placement testing
• Financial Aid

• Orientation programs
• Disability services
• Transitional services to high school
• Veterans services

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Student Development ServicesAcademic Support
Services

• Academic advising
• Study skills models
• Developmental courses
• Academic progress monitoring
• Student activities

• Health services
• Tutoring programs
• Cooperative education
• Housing and transportation referrals

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Student Development ServicesEnrollment Management

• Recruitment
• Retention
• Marketing and public relations

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Student Development ServicesAdministrative
Services

• Registration
• Student records
• Graduation services
• State, Federal and SACS reporting
• Student discipline and grievance
• Staff Development

• Planning and evaluation
• Foreign student services
• Online student services
• Federally funded program management

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Student Development ServicesTransition Services

• Job development and placement
• Transfer articulation counseling
• Recommendations and transcripts to employers

• On-campus visits from four-year institutions
• Workshops and classes on employment skills

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Vision for the New Millennium
Diverse Learner Populations
Emerging Faculty Staff
Leadership Professional Development
Resource Development
Best Practices Assessment Dissemination
Internal/ External Partnerships
Lifelong Learning
Learning Technology
Global Education
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Ken WhitehurstAssociate Vice President Academic
and Student Services

• FERPA Discussion

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Student Development Services

• Charletta Sims

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Student Development ServicesResource
Development

• Eligibility Criteria and Guidelines for
  Scholarship Administration manual
• Provide annual publication that gives criteria
  and guidelines for each scholarship.
• Coordinate and monitor the utilization of
  scholarships according to criteria
• Approve college reimbursement requests

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Student Development ServicesResource Development

• Corporate Sponsors
• Progress Energy Scholarships - 45,000
• Rodney E. Powell Memorial - 20,000
• Power Careers - 10,000
• Embarq Scholarship (formerly Sprint) - 10,200
• BellSouth - 10,000
• Wachovia - 56,500
• North Carolina State Board of Refrigeration
  Examiners - 2,600

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Student Development ServicesResource Development

• Private Sponsors
• Allen Ryan Todd
• George W. Ballard Memorial
• Ray Jeffries Scholarship
• State Agency Scholarship
• Youth Development Center

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Student Development ServicesNurse Education
Scholarship Loan Program (NESLP)

• NC State Education Assistance Authority
  (NCSEAA) -657,400
• Provides special financial aid resources to
  encourage the enrollment and retention of
  qualified nurse education students.
• Colleges are contacted by NCSEAA

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Student Development Services

• Serve as resource to campus personnel to
  collect/develop and disseminate information on
  retention programs
• Collaborate in the development of retention
  programs.

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Student Development ServicesInternal/External
Partnerships

• State Occupational Information Coordinating
• Council (SOICC)
• NC College Access Programs
• Gear UP NC CFNC Pathways
• Other Agencies
• Department of Corrections
• Vote For America
• National Board of Certified Counselors
• NC State Education Assistance Authority

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Student Development Services

• Coordinate services for student leadership and
  student activities.
• Coordinate career services, academic advising
  and professional development training and
  certification.

Serve as liaison to inter-agencies for the
System office.
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Student Development ServicesLeadership/Profession
al Development

• North Carolina Community College Student
  Development Personnel Association (N3CSDPA)
• Serve as System Office liaison to assist with the
  initiatives of the association.
• Provide an opportunity for growth and development
  of professional student development personnel.

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Student Development ServicesLeadership/Profession
al Development

• North Carolina Comprehensive Community
  College Student Government Association (N4CSGA)/
  Student Activities
• Serve as trustee to assist with the statewide
  initiatives of the association.
• Represent all student members of student
  government organizations within the North
  Carolina Community College System.

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Student Development Services

• Karen Yerby

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Student Development Services

• Provide leadership and technical assistance to
  campuses for the administration of Title IV
  financial aid programs
• Provide leadership and technical assistance to
  campuses for provision of disability services and
  the promotion of access for non-traditional
  learners.

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Student Development Services

• Monitor federal legislation for Student Financial
  Assistance, Americans with Disabilities Act and
  the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to advise the
  Director and appropriate campus personnel of
  changes.
• Coordinate and assist campuses with Innovations
  in admissions and recruitment systems that
  increase enrollment in the system.

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Student Development Services

• Provide assistance to campuses for implementing
  Veterans Affairs.
• Serve as resource to campus personnel to
  collect/develop and disseminate information on
  retention programs.
• Provide technology support including web based
  solutions at the system level.
• Serve as resource for campus personnel for
  foreign student exchange support

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Student Development Services

• Administer the State Childcare grants program -
  2,000,000.
• Administer the Golden LEAF Scholars Program
• Serve as liaison to the NC Association of Student
  Financial Aid Administrators, NC Association on
  Higher Education and Disability, and the State
  ADA Coordinators, DOC Going Home Initiative.

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Student Development Services

• DISABILITY SERVICES
• Colleges must provide services under Section 504
  of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 the Americans
  with Disabilities Act (Title II).
• 504 because they receive federal funds
• ADA because they are public entities.

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Student Development ServicesDiverse Learner
Pop., Leadership Pro. Dev, Best Practices,
Emerging Faculty Staff

• Colleges must offer reasonable accommodations to
  students with documented disabilities
• What are the problems?
• What are the solutions?

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Student Development ServicesResource Development

• STATE CHILD CARE GRANT
• 2,000,000
• Base funding is 20,000/college with additional
  allocation based on FTE
• Served over 1,000 student parents last year
• Over 1,400 student parents were not served last
  year due to lack of funds

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Resource Development

• Golden LEAF Scholars Program 300,000
• For Curriculum and Occupational Ed. Students
• Eligible students must
• be a permanent resident of one of the eligible
  counties designated as Tier I, II,III or highly
  tobacco-dependent counties

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Professional Development

• Student Development Web Portal
• Serve as the liaison with Vocational Ed. and CORD
  to development web portal for Student
  Development. (NC-ACCESS)
• Multi-year project
• survey
• Develop professional development with various
  means of delivery
• Website will serve as a clearinghouse

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Other.

• Service Learning
• Statewide initiative to provide info on SL for
  colleges to include as part of their campus
  culture
• Occupational Course of Study
• Statewide committee formed. Survey of colleges
  regarding these students.

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Student Development ServicesLeadership
Professional Development

• Student Leadership Institute
• (Independent Entity)
• Created in 1995
• First class in 1999
• Includes summer session and 2 weekends
• Requirements
• Accomplishments

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Student Development ServicesStudent Leadership
Institute

• Student quote
• The week I spent at Peace College with the other
  SLI participants was one of the best training
  sessions I have ever attended. I worked for ten
  years before attending college and had many hours
  of training, but this information I can use on my
  job, in my personal life and for the rest of my
  life. I am grateful for the privilege to be a
  part of an effort to make a change in a positive
  direction." Martha Marshburn, Coastal Carolina
  C.C.

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Monty HickmanAssociate Director of Financial
Aid
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Student Development ServicesMonty Hickman

• TITLE IV FINANCIAL AID
• Federal Pell Grant - Gift Aid
• Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant
  (FSEOG) - Gift Aid
• Federal Work-Study (FWS) - Self-Help Aid
• Loans - Self-Help Aid

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Higher Education Reconciliation Act of
2005(HERA)

• HERA reflects changes made to the Higher
  Education Act of 1965.
• HERA 2005 was enacted on February 8, 2006
• Changes impacted the 2006-2007 academic year.
• FAFSA processing had already begun as of January
  1, 2006

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Academic Competitive Grant (ACG)-1

• Must be a Pell Eligible student
• Must be US citizen
• Have completed a rigorous academic high school
  program
• After January 1, 2006 if a freshman
• After January 1, 2005 if second year student

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ACG -2

• Enrolled in a degree program (undergraduate)
• Not previously enrolled
• First or second year of program
• If second year, must have 3.0 GPA on 4.0 scale
• 750 for first academic year
• 1300 for second academic year

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National SMART Grant-1

• Available when CC students transfers to a 4-year
  school
• Students may receive 4000 awards for the third
  and fourth academic year
• Must be a U. S. citizen
• Pell Grant recipient
• Enrolled in full-time degree program

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National SMART Grant-2

• Enrolled in 4-year degree granting institution
• Major in physical, life or computer science,
  engineering, mathematics, technology or a
  critical foreign language
• Have at least a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale

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ACG/Smart Grant-3

• http//www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/gen0
  604a.pdf (Grant Requirements)
• http//www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/GENO
  615Attach1.pdf (List of Majors)

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FAFSA Updates

• Family-Owned and operated small
• businesses that do not employ more than 100
  people are no longer considered as assets when
  calculating aid.

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Definition of Independent Student

• Independency Status
• Student serving on active duty in the U.S.
  Armed Forces for purposes other than training are
  now considered independent.

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Drug Offences

• Drug Conviction Question
• Eligibility provision was modified so that
  students convicted of drug-related offenses lose
  Title IV eligibility only if the offense occurred
  during a period of enrollment in which the
  student was receiving Title IV aid.
• Length of Ineligibility- one year, two years, or
  indefinitely depending on nature of charges

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Automatic Zero EFC

• Parents of dependent students and independent
  students-Income between 16,000 and 20,000
• Recipient of federal benefit programs-SSI, Food
  stamps, free and reduced lunch, and WIC
  (Recipients must meet Auto Income guidelines)

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Cost of Attendance

• Institutions may include in a student s budget
  the following
• -one time cost for obtaining a professional
  license or certificate certification
• -does not include cost for taking specialized
  exams

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Room and Board Cost of Attendance (COA)

• Room and Board can be included in cost of
  attendance for less than half time students
• Allowance can only be claimed for up to three
  semesters
• Two of those semesters must be consecutive

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Loan Limits Updates

• Effective 2007-2008 year student Loan limits will
  change
• Freshman- 2,625 increased to 3,500
• Sophomore- 3,500 increased to 4,500
• Junior and Senior remains at 5,500
• Aggregate Limits remain the same
• 23,000 Sub
• 23,000 Unsub

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State Grants and LoanPrograms

• NC Community College
• Need Based Grant (Est. 13,000,000)
• Targeted Assistance Grant (500,000)
• Less Than Half Time Grant (262,802)
• Lottery Scholarships 2007-2008
• NC Need Based Loan (no new allocations)

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Student Development ServicesMinority Male
Mentoring Men are Nurtures Too ConferenceApril
11-13, 2007

• Achieving the Dream Program/ Lumina Foundation
• NC Fatherhood Advisory Council
• NC Workforce Development

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Student Development ServicesPartnerships

• NC State Education Assistance Authority
• College Foundation, Inc.
• NC Independent Colleges

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Associations

• Carolina Association of College Registrars and
  Admissions Officers (CACRAO)
• NC Association of Student Financial Aid
  Administrators (NCASFAA)
• Southern Assoc. of Student Financial Aid
• Administrators (SASFAA)
• National Assoc. of Student Financial Aid
• Administrators (NASFAA)

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Associations

• NC Student Development Administrators
  Association (NCSDAA)
• NC Assoc. of Community College Instructors
  (NCACCIA)

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Karen Yerby
Resources on the Web
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Student Development Website
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Student Development Website
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Student Development ServicesWebsite Information

• Collaborate in the development of retention
  programs
• Monitor Title IV financial aid to support staff
• Monitor and report on federal and state
  legislative matters
• Provide technology support including web based
  solutions at the system level
• Support colleges with monitoring residency for
  tuition policies.

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Student Development ServicesInternal/External
Partners, Resource Development
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Resource Information

• Use the System Office website at
  http//www.nccommunitycolleges.edu
• Visit the numbered memos webpage
  http//www.nccommunitycolleges.edu/Numered_Memos/i
  ndex.html
• Watch for due dates/status reports
  http//www.nccommunitycolleges.edu/reports/statist
  ical/duedates.htm
• Review the Education Catalog on the web
  http//www.nccommunitycolleges.edu/Programs/educat
  ion_catalog.htm
• Review the chart on the webhttp//www.nccommunit
  ycolleges.edu/Programs/docs/Education-Catalog/Educ
  ation-Chart-May2004.pdf

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Thank you!!

• Shlonda Brouchet [phone]
• Monty Hickman [phone]
• Charletta Sims [phone]
• Wanda White [phone]
• Ken Whitehurst [phone]
• Karen Yerby [phone]