IPEDS Student Financial Aid and Cost Survey (Virtual Workshop)
November 20, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
Workshop Content
This workshop provides foundational training for completing the IPEDS Student Financial Aid (SFA) Survey and the new IPEDS Cost Survey (CST). Participants will learn to manage, store, and extract financial aid data. Key financial aid concepts, creating frozen data files, and accurately completing the SFA survey will be covered. Additionally, the workshop includes a review of the new CST requirements, as well as best practices for collecting, reviewing, and submitting CST data to ensure accuracy and timeliness. Participants will understand the shift of certain cost information from the SFA to the CST survey. The training also explores leveraging these files for internal reporting and understanding the use of IPEDS financial aid data for external purposes and benchmarking.
Learning Outcomes
- Complete the IPEDS Student Financial Aid and Cost Surveys accurately and effectively
- Describe the function of financial aid in U.S. higher education and explain financial aid concepts (types, source, programs, etc.) as well as basic principles of financial aid administration
- Explain how financial aid concepts are used in IPEDS
- Describe and discuss the importance of adopting an integrated approach to survey completion
- Construct a system for ‘freezing’ appropriate data and using a ‘frozen file’ for multiple financial aid reporting uses
- Describe how the data reported in the IPEDS Student Financial Aid and Cost Surveys are used.
Pricing
This workshop is available at no charge to participants. Funding for this workshop is provided by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Note
If you have any special needs addressed by the American with Disabilities Act, please contact the IPEDS Workshop Team at 850-385-4155 x2 or email ipedsworkshops@airweb.org.
