Financial Aid
This is a type of Title IV Aid that the U.S. Department of Education pays the interest on while a student is enrolled at least half-time, for the first six months after the student leaves school (drops below half-time or graduates), and during a period of deferment.
What is a Direct Subsidized Loan?
Peru State College is known by this nickname, highlighting the large number of trees historically found on campus.
What is the Campus of a Thousand Oaks?
These team members are responsible for guiding prospective students through the enrollment process, beginning with first contact and continuing through registration and enrollment.
What are Admissions Counselors?
This body of water forms much of Nebraska’s eastern border and plays a major role in the geography and history of southeast Nebraska communities.
What is the Missouri River?
This marketing term refers to digital platforms including Facebook, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Instagram.
What is social media?
A student signs this when they agree to the terms of the loan.
What is the Master Promissory Note?
Before becoming a state institution, Peru State was originally chartered under this name.
What is Peru Seminary and College?
The admissions funnel tracks a student’s progression through enrollment. Name three of the five stages in this process.
What are Prospect, Inquiry, Applicant, Admitted, Matriculated, Enrolled (any three)?
This hardy tree is the official Nebraska state tree and is commonly found across the state’s river valleys and plains.
What is the Eastern Cottonwood?
This is the department everyone emails when they need a poster, flyer, t-shirt design, AND a miracle.
What is the marketing department?
Students may be eligible for this type of loan if their Parent is denied a Parent PLUS loan.
What is an Additional Unsubsidized Loan?
When adopted by the state of Nebraska, Peru State became this type of institution focused on training teachers.
What is a Normal School?
This term is used to describe students who have been admitted and indicated intent to enroll but ultimately do not show up for their first term of classes.
What is Summer Melt?
Nebraska’s first Olympic medal was won in this year (accept answers within 5 years). The medal came from a Nebraska-born athlete competing in the 110-meter hurdles at the Stockholm Olympics.
What is 1912?
This key metric helps determine how effective an email campaign is by tracking how many recipients actually opened the message.
What is the open rate?
This number is calculated based on data reported on a student's FAFSA and represents the student’s financial need.
What is the Student Aid Index (SAI)?
This historic one-room schoolhouse was relocated to campus in the early 2000s to honor Peru State’s origins in teacher education.
What is the Little Red Schoolhouse?
What is the difference between the WAPP and WADM student statuses used in admissions processing?
What is WAPP is Applicant Withdrawal and WADM is Administrative Withdrawal?
This geographic region in southeast Nebraska is known for steep loess soil bluffs, river valleys, and distinctive wind-shaped landscapes along the Missouri River.
What is the Loess Hills?
This digital marketing strategy focuses on improving a website’s visibility on search engines like Google based on what users are actively searching for.
What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
Students must be meeting this, which includes Cumulative GPA, Cumulative Credit Completion Rate (Cumulative Pace), and Maximum Attempted Credits Limit, to be eligible to receive Title IV Aid
What is Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)?
This Civil War veteran and Nebraska legislator played a key role in establishing Peru as the site of the state’s first public college and now has a campus building named after him.
Who is Thomas J. Majors?
In PeopleSoft, FRAPP, FREG, and FRAM are examples of this type of admissions tracking tool used to ensure students complete required enrollment steps.
What are Checklists?
This landmark federal historic trail passes through southeast Nebraska and follows routes used during westward expansion in the mid-1800s.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This foundational document outlines logo usage, colors, typography, and tone to keep everything on-brand across campus.
What is the brand guide?