1. Building relationships with your students while removing barriers.
Presenter: Allison Dering
SOWELA Technical Community College

2. What is the purpose of the financial aid office?

3. Financial Aid Awareness Events

5. FAFSA Completion Week
Complete your FAFSA and receive a free school t-shirt. Remember your branch campuses.

6. One Stop Enrollment Center

7. We hire extra help during peak times. TSA- Tiger Student Advisors
The role of the TSA is to provide the personal touch to students with greater need for one on one assistance.

8. Look around- Who is not succeeding?
Those are students we need to reach.

9. FIRE program
We wanted to help our “Chafee Kids.”
As we spread the word in the community more groups began to refer students to us.
We planned events that would help to build relationships.

10. Finals Week Survival Care Packages for the FIRE students.

11. Food insecurity is a real thing on your college campus.
How do we meet this huge need?

12. Veteran Students- how are we serving them?