College Departments
This department is responsible for helping students through the college-decision making process and accepting students to the school.
What is Admissions/Recruitment?
This is free money a student is awarded and doesn't have to pay back. These are often awarded to students who demonstrate financial need based on the FAFSA.
What is a Grant?
This person is able to assist you with registering for classes, getting access to any student resources, and taking all necessary steps required for your program of study.
This is the number of public universities in the State of Iowa?
What is 3? (Iowa, Iowa State, UNI)
This department is responsible for the management and disbursement of federal student aid money, including loans, grants, scholarships, work study positions, and more.
What is the Financial Aid Office?
This terms a username and password which gives you access to the U.S. Department of Education’s online systems and can serve as your legal signature when completing electronic documents.
Go to this person in order to get assistance with difficult subject matter. Colleges often have math and writing specialists, but also go into more specific topics as needed.
What is a tutor?
This is the number of credits you must be enrolled in during a fall or spring semester in order to be considered full time for Financial Aid purposes?
What is 12?
This department includes things like housing, campus dining, activities, and organizations for students to participate in while in college.
What is Campus/Student Life?
This number is what is used in order to determine what financial aid a student is eligible for and is calculated using tax returns from the prior-prior year for both the student and the parents.
What is Estimated Family Contribution?
This person can assist you with research for class assignments, whether that is physical books, online databases with academic journals and other publications.
What is a Librarian?
The FAFSA opens on this date every year for students to fill out for the next school year.
What is October 1st?
This department provides services and support to ensure that students are able to access and participate in all of the activities, programs and services, regardless of physical, learning, or psychological disability.
What is Disabilities Services?
This is the name of the State of Iowa Aid program that is offering students free tuition for degrees that lead to jobs in high-need career fields across the state of Iowa?
What is the Future Ready Iowa Grant/Last Dollar Scholarship?
What is a Counselor?
This is the typical amount of time allowed after graduating or leaving college before you must start paying back any student loans, which is called a grace period.
What is 6 months?
This department is responsible for managing all student records, including registering students, recording grades, preparing student transcripts and evaluating academic records.
What is the Registrar's Office?
This is a federally mandated process to confirm the accuracy of data provided by selected applicants on the FAFSA and involves providing additional documents to the school for review.
What is verification?
This person will be able to assist you with resume writing, job and internship searches, and interview skills.
What is Career Services?
What is 2.0?