The Media Communications Committee needs your help!
We’ve received some great submissions for the name of our newsletter and we would love to see more. Keep those creative ideas coming! We will make an announcement of the new name at the Annual Conference in May, so go ahead and send us your best ideas.
The Illinois Student Assistance Commission is on their way to a location near your home or office. The second series focuses on the Expert Guide: FASFA Relevant Documents and Student Eligibility Issues and FAFSA Expert Training: Need Analysis and EFC Calculations. The third series focuses on Financial Aid Packaging and The University Billing Cycle.
It has been a long winter and the fall travel season seems like a distant memory. Why not catch up with your admission colleagues and get a new t-shirt at the IACAC Mentorship Committee t-shirt exchange? It’s being held just prior to the ICE fair at Southwestern Illinois College on February 27th.
The Bus O’Fun 2011 trip is now at capacity with 40 counselors signed up. If you are still interested in joining the tour, please complete the registration form and submit it without paying the deposit fee to be added to the waiting list.
Since the Media Communications Committee was created last May, we have undertaken the task of improving the methods by which IACAC keeps members informed of news about IACAC and the college admission profession. With that goal in mind, we are excited to present to you our new electronic newsletter.
The changes of fall surround us – amazing outdoor colors, crisp morning air, and shorter days. Tradition or change? Both, right? Certainly, here in the Midwest we know that we are experiencing a traditional fall – of change.
IACAC is experiencing the same, as it often does at this time of year. The new Executive Board is in place, Committee Chairs have been named and most have already been hard at work getting their committees and committee projects off the ground. We do this within the warmth of IACAC tradition and history. As IACAC President, it is incredibly rewarding to watch our 2010 Conference theme, Enhancing Tradition, Cultivating Change, continue to play out in the work we are doing.
At the NACAC National Conference held in St. Louis, Missouri, three members of IACAC were honored for their long-term commitment to our profession and serving students in their postsecondary transition. Marybeth Kravets (retired from Deerfield H.S.) received the Gayle C. Wilson Service to Education Award, Aliza Gilbert (Highland Park H.S.) received the Human Relations Award, and Marsha Hubbuch (retired from Riverside-Brookfield H.S.), for her initiation of Project Reach, received the Rising Star Award.
The 2010 version of the NACAC Annual Conference is now a part of history, and after hearing from individuals who attended, this conference was a resounding success.
Statement of Principles of Good Practice
The Assembly adopted proposed changes to the Statement of Principles of Good Practice: Education, Monitoring Policies, and Procedures submitted by the National Admissions Practices Committee. The changes outline steps to refer cases from the affiliate AP Committees to NACAC, clearly state the range of possible penalties for noncompliance, and update routine language such as “state and regional” to “affiliate” and “accused” to “noncompliant party.
