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Our consultants bring unparalleled expertise in the management of ﬁnancial aid. Visit our website for more information and a complete list of clients or contact Ken Garrett at 770-988-9447, ext. 101 or KGarrett@ FinancialAidServices.org. Sallie Mae 300 Continental Drive Newark, DE 19713 302-283-8414 Betsy.Burton-Strunk@SallieMae.com www.SallieMae.com/UB Sallie Mae offers a complete line of business solutions designed to help colleges, universities and K-12 schools deliver services to students at lower costs and with greater efﬁciency. The suite of services includes tuition payment plans, electronic bill presentment and payment, an electronic payment gateway and 1098-T processing service. Sallie Mae also offers complete refund disbursement services – featuring the Sallie Mae Debit MasterCard®. To learn more, visit www.SallieMae.com/UB. The Dysart Group is a higher education consulting ﬁrm specializing in recruitment, retention, and ﬁnancial aid at colleges and universities. Our emphasis is on revenue sensitive enrollment management, and we provide expert counsel regarding admissions, ﬁnancial aid, ﬁnance, pricing, retention, and marketing. We work collaboratively with college and university representatives to achieve extraordinary results. Clients include Ferrum College, University of Baltimore, Jefferson College of Health Sciences, Bethany College, Wesley College, Roosevelt University. Greenwood & Hall The Evans Consulting Group, Inc. 7852 Eagle Ranch Road Fort Collins, CO 80528 888-454-3101 www.evansconsulting.org 1936 East Deere Avenue, Suite 120 Santa Ana, CA 92705 800-422-0513 ub.greenwoodhall.com Greenwood & Hall, founded in 1997, is a leader in co-sourced enrollment management, ﬁnancial aid and student success solutions that address the entire student lifecycle. We seamlessly represent your institution to cost effectively increase enrollments and reenrollments, maximize revenue and proﬁtability, improve efﬁciency, ensure compliance, increase student satisfaction and optimize student success. We are contact management and higher education experts that strive to understand your unique needs to develop customized solutions. Services are available as complete end-to-end solutions, in combination or individually. Our solutions include: • Online and on-ground recruitment • International recruitment • Military recruitment • Online program identiﬁcation, development and learning management systems • Lead qualiﬁcation and prospect management • Enrollment counseling • Student behavioral assessments • Retention counseling TIAA-CREF 730 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017 800-842-2252 tiaa-cref.org The TIAA-CREF family of companies is a prominent ﬁnancial services organization dedicated to providing lifetime ﬁnancial security to those in the healthcare, academic, government, cultural and research ﬁelds. An organization with more than $466 billion in total assets under management as of March 31, 2011, TIAA-CREF has more than 3.7 million participants in more than 27,000 plans at 15,000 public and private institutions. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC, and Teachers Personal Investors Services, Inc., members FINRA, distribute securities products. © 2011 Teachers Insurance and Annuity AssociationCollege Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), New York, NY 10017. C44249B Founded in 1995, The Evans Consulting Group, Inc. (ECG) is a professional services consulting ﬁrm specializing in ﬁnancial aid operations and enrollment-related services for the higher education community. Our key ﬁnancial aid services include: interim management and stafﬁng, operational reviews, corrective action plans, system assessment and implementation, policies and procedures development, and staff training. We also provide specialized support, such as responding to a federal program review; and we serve all institutional types, including public, private and for-proﬁt schools. The Center for Financial Aid Management (www. centerﬁnaid.org), a division of ECG, offers full and partial outsourcing solutions for ﬁnancial aid operations. 16 | July/August 2011 universitybusiness.com/consulting http://www.FinancialAidServices.org http://www.thedysartgroup.com http://www.SallieMae.com/UB http://www.FinancialAidServices.org http://www.thedysartgroup.com http://www.SallieMae.com/UB http://www.SallieMae.com/UB http://www.evansconsulting.org http://ub.greenwoodhall.com http://www.tiaa-cref.org http://ub.greenwoodhall.com http://www.evansconsulting.org http://www.tiaa-cref.org http://www.centerfinaid.org http://www.centerfinaid.org http://www.universitybusiness.com/consulting

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - July/August 2011

University Business - July/August 2011
Contents
Editor's Note
Ad Index
College Index
Behind the News
Sense of Place
Viewpoint
Financial Success
Money Matters
Community Colleges
Funding Capture
Models of Efficiency
Thwarting ID Thieves
Embezzlement Epidemic
What's New
End Note

University Business - July/August 2011