2011 Tri-State Sponsors:

  • American Student Assistance
  • Citizens Bank
  • Discover Student Loans
  • Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation
  • National Education
  • Nelnet
  • PNC Bank
  • Sallie Mae
  • SunTrust Education Loans / First Marblehead
  • USA Funds
  • Wells Fargo EFS

Potential 2012 Tri-State Sponsors:

  • Access Group

Access Group is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of 191 state and nonprofit American Bar Association-accredited U.S. law schools. Founded in 1983, Access Group’s mission has centered on the promotion of broad access to higher education. From providing an array of student loan options to educational programs for students and schools to student loan policy advocacy, Access Group has continually evolved to meet the ever-changing challenges and needs of the graduate and professional school community. Throughout its history, Access Group became a leading provider of affordable student loans for aspiring professionals in law, medicine, dentistry, health, business, and other disciplines. As such, Access Group served as a national originator, holder and servicer of federally-guaranteed and private loans, funding more than $18 billion of educational loans since 2001.

In recent years, legislative and economic events have minimized Access Group’s role as an originator of student loans, creating the opportunity to focus more heavily on the development of our Wise Borrower© financial literacy program, particularly for student borrowers. Moreover, investments in Need Access©, our web-based needs analysis tool that assists schools with efficiently awarding grant and scholarship aid, provides another example of this evolution. For nearly 30 years, Access Group has been fulfilling its service-driven mission to further access to higher education. It looks forward to adding to that successful legacy for decades to come.

  • ELM
  • Fig Solutions

Why Choose Ferrilli Information Group (FIG)? FIG consultants have the expertise to unlock the full potential of your student information system.FIG is vendor neutral. We do not promote products or services from any particular company. FIG helps clients determine the right combination of tools and resources to meet the institution’s unique needs.FIG clients receive electronic access to projects tracking, consultant advice and peer input.Whether it is extracting student data to effectively manage student enrollment and retention, obtaining historic financial data from your budget module, or granting parents greater access to their student’s information, FIG has the knowledge, tools and experience to help you unlock the full potential of your software investment.

  • Financial Aid Services, Inc (FAS)

FAS was established in 1980 as a family run business by its founder and president Al Gillis in order to bridge the gap between career schools, colleges, universities and the U.S. Department of Education. FAS supplies institutions with the latest technology in financial aid servicing, consulting and school management software in order to help institutions strengthen themselves financially, managerially and competitively.

Today FAS is recognized as one of the largest and oldest Financial Aid Services in the country with clients coast to coast including Puerto Rico. Some of FAS’ original clients are still with the FAS since its inception over 30 years ago.

Financial Aid Services (FAS) has a large staff of dedicated employees some of which have been with the company for over 15 years. The offices of Financial Aid Services are located in its newly acquired building in Salem, NH which also houses its large training facility. The Senior Management team has combined experience of over 75 years in the administration of Financial Aid and School Management Software.

FAS credits itself in training a number of personnel who are currently working in various schools and companies in the financial aid community.

FAS’ integration of consulting and processing and software applications offers a “one stop” opportunity for owners who need to reach beyond the talent and resources available at their own institutions.

FAS continues to grow as it continually provides institutions with Pathways to Administrative Capability.

“Our mission is to perform an upfront assessment of the institution to familiarize ourselves with each client school culture and systems and then to streamline operations with our technology and value added hands-on processing. We aim to keep the school completely administratively capable by also educating the school staff so that they are in control of the school’s Title IV Programs and can make decisions and answer to officials if necessary.”

Financial Aid TV

Since 2002, Financial Aid TV (FATV), a service of College Media Solutions, has been helping hundreds of campuses and financial aid offices across the nation save money and time by reducing the influx of repetitive questions and increasing the effectiveness of their outreach and counseling programs.

Our cost effective solutions start at less than $14/day and are designed to pay for themselves in savings alone. FATV is a subscription service that can be setup for your school in just 5 days. It is 100% web-based and updated regularly for compliance with Federal and State regulations.

The FATV library of online video content is available in 2 formats - 1) as an outreach tool and 2) as a counseling tool with testing solutions. Both services are fully-customizable with admin access to retrieve data. Schools can order one or both solutions.

We quantify the return-on-investment for schools through "hard data" so that they can have a better understanding of their student needs, questions and optimize their outreach efforts.

  • iGrad

Who We Are: iGrad was developed by a group of former financial aid professionals who realized that many college students and graduates do not have access to the tools needed to succeed in the real world. We partner with colleges across the country to provide a comprehensive and customized financial literacy program.

Our Belief: Financial Literacy curriculum needs three qualities to be effective: it must be continuous and ongoing, it must be interactive and engaging, and it must be relevant to each individual. This curriculum is most effectively delivered in a “community” setting, whether online or in person.

Our Mission: To spread awareness about the need for improved financial literacy education in this country, and to give our users the knowledge and preparation necessary to make wise financial decisions and achieve their life goals in a way that is fun and easy-to-understand.

  • iHELP

What is iHELP College Planning Services?

The iHELP College Planning Service is a web based college planning resource that helps you to become an "informed buyer" and make excellent college planning and college funding decisions that achieve the best possible outcome. (go to iHELP College Planning website)

Who is SLFC?

Student Loan Finance Corporation (SLFC) is a well respected student loan servicer with over 30 years experience in student lending. SLFC, in association with the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), offers iHELP, a low interest, no-fee private student loan to help students finance their education. iHELP borrowers will experience less confusion with their loans originated and serviced throughout the life of the loan at SLFC.

Who is the ICBA?

The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) is the nation's voice for community banks and represents nearly 5,000 banks of all sizes and charters in over 23,000 locations nationwide. The ICBA is dedicated to funding small businesses with local dollars to enable their members to purchase homes, finance college and build a secure future.

  • Student Aid Services

Student Aid Services is the leading provider of net price calculator technologies and services to college enrollment and financial aid offices. The company provides itsNet Price Calculator to more than680 campuses nationwide and is recognized as having the most accurate, flexible and sophisticated technology in the market. The company also operates the StudentAid.com Web service, which provides the innovative College Cost & Planning Report®to prospective students. This unique report educates individuals on the cost of college and their eligibility for student aid; it also provides information on how to make the best college choice. For corporations, the company offers TuitionHelp™, a range of services that assists such entities in providing employees with cost-effective tuition reimbursement programs, student aid assistance services and individualized college planning consultations.

Our goal from the start has been to build the best college cost estimation technology available and to make that technology accessible to all types of students, families and institutions. Whether it’s Access for All® or TuitionHelp™ or our latest NPC features, we strive toward that goal every day.

Craig V. Carroll
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Student Aid Services, Inc.

  • Veri-Tax

As an industry pioneer, Veri-Tax has developed a full-array of tax verification services designed to help organizations in the mortgage, banking, legal and credit card industries more quickly and securely process borrower income and tax documentation.
Founded in 1999, Veri-Tax was established with the belief that advances in information technology could be utilized to stream-line the retrieval of IRS forms and documents needed to verify borrower loan application information. To that end, Veri-Tax became the first company to deliver IRS tax transcripts electronically to lenders nationwide. Using technology as the great equalizer in the financial services industry, Veri-Tax has developed a full-suite of high-tech fraud prevention solutions to help lenders better protect themselves including secure 4506-T Processing, TFV Reports™, SSN Verification, Mortgage Fraud Reports™ and Bankruptcy Verification.
Today, Veri-Tax's services are integral to detecting and preventing fraud at numerous national and multi-national lending organizations. If you are a lender who is interested in reducing losses on defaulted loans and mortgages resulting from fraud, then Veri-Tax has a service designed for you.