Daniel TramutaAssociate VP for Enrollment ServicesSUNY Fredonia

Accelerating completion of degree for Pell Grant recipientsIn order to maximize the benefit of second Scheduled Awards

Student must attend full-time, or almost full-time, to receive significant benefit

Applying student achievement and accountability principles for use of funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Summer 2010 awards were paid out of ARRA funding.

Acceleration – student must have earned and be enrolled in a total of at least (25) credit hours between the Summer Cross-Over(earned), Fall(earned), & Spring(enrolled) period. In determining eligibility for a second Scheduled Award in an award year, you may not use hours based on:

Advanced Placement (AP) programsInternational Baccalaureate (IB) programsTesting out, life experience, or similar competency measures

Must be enrolled in an eligible program leading to a bachelor’s or associate degreeMust be enrolled at least half-time in order to receive any of 2nd scheduled award

Can begin paying from second award in a payment period while paying the balance of first award if student qualifies for second award

In the Spring semester, the student will use the last ¼ of the first scheduled award and begin receiving payment from the 2nd as part of the entire full-time award.

Summer 2010¾ time (9 hr)

$1,500

Fall 2010Full-time (12 hr)

$2,000

2010-11 Award Year/2010-11 EFC of 1588

Spring 2011Full-time (12 hr)

$2,000

$4,000 Scheduled Award for 2010-11At the end of Fall, student earned 24 hours & is enrolled in 12 for the Spring; thus, meeting the 25 credit hour mark.In Spring, student receives payment from second Scheduled Award as long as student is ½ timeStudent receives last $2,000 from 2nd scheduled award in Summer 2011.

Summer 2010Full-time (12 hr)

$2,000

Fall 2010Full-time (12 hr)

$2,000

2010-11 Award Year

Spring 2011Full-time (12 hr)

$2,000

Summer 2011Full-time (12 hr)

$2,000

$4,000 Scheduled Award for 2010-11At end of Fall, student earned (24) credit hours & will be taking 3 credit hours in the Spring; thus meeting the 25 credit hour mark…However, student receives no payment due to less than half-time enrollment

Summer 2010Full-time (12 hr)

$2,000

Fall 2010Full-time (12 hr)

$2,000

2010-11 Award Year

Spring 2011Less than half-time (3 hr)

$0

Must assign cross-over payment period (summer) to the award year in which the student receives the greater payment. ~ you must compare EFC’s to get the student

their maximum Pell award for the cross-over period

Schools were required to compare 0910 & 1011 EFC’s for the cross over payment period until the 9/10/10 deadline for 2010-11 unless they paid Summer 2010 out of 0910 and had an established policy in place stating just that prior to July 1st, 2010.

Three Different Institutional options:– Prior to July 1, 2010, a written policy had to be in place stating the student’s payment resides in 2009-10 and school will not apply these YRP regulations . This would have meant that all Summer 10 Pell would have been paid out of 2009-10 with no comparison to 1011 EFC and no monitoring of acceleration, i.e. monitoring of the 25 total hours during 0910.– If awarding Summer Pell from 1011 award year, YRP rules apply. This means Sum’10 Pell award must be compared to 0910 Pell award. However, if school had policy in place prior to July 1st, acceleration rule is optional for this year only.- If no policy in place, regulations apply and that means that you must compare EFC’s for the cross-over term.

Effective in 2010-11 aid year, one can assume EFC is higher if –

- No 2010-11 FAFSA.- Rejected 2010-11 ISIR with no EFC.- 2010-11 ISIR selected for verification but

verification still not completed.

For example, student enrolled during Summer 10 eligible for Pell award, no 1011 official EFC by 9/10/10 deadline, we awarded/paid Summer 10 Crossover Pell out of 2009-10.

EXAMPLESummer term assigned as trailer for the 2009-10 award year with no policy in placeInstitution must pay Summer 2010 Pell from the EFC that provides the student the greatest benefit.

Use 2010-11 FASFA/EFC for Pell since 1011 EFC provides the student the greater Pell Award.Use 2009-10 FAFSA/EFC for packaging all other aid during Summer 2010 in this example the summer term is the trailer.

Raises packaging issuesMust use same EFC, COA and need for all programs except PellFor Pell, use EFC for the award year from which the student will be paid that warrants the higher award amount.

Must pay eligible students (school must ‘find’ Pell eligible students enrolled in summer coursework and get them the funding)Must implement regardless of software capabilities, even if requires manual interventions such as may be necessary for crossover payment periods as per Fred Sellers from DE.You may pay summer student Pell funds and then the student is selected for verification, thus changing the EFC, which may result in a re-deposit of all or partial funds and a new origination out of the previous year

Example 1:- Summer 2010, 9 credit hour enrollment, - Aid year 1011 EFC=0- Aid year 0910 EFC = 2696

School pays student summer Pell of $2082 for Summer out of 1011 award year in late July.- Student makes correction to FAFSA in late August and gets selected for verification- Due to verification 1011 EFC increase to 851- School must do a re-deposit of $319 since now the student is only eligible for $1763 in summer

Example 2:- Summer 2010, 9 credit hour enrollment, - Aid year 1011 EFC=0- Aid year 0910 EFC = 2696School pays student summer Pell of $2082 for Summer out of 1011 award year in late July.- Student makes correction to FAFSA in late August and gets selected for verification- Due to verification 1011 EFC increase to 6000- School must do a re-deposit of 1011 Pell since now the student is only eligible for Pell in 0910 award year

Satisfactory Academic Progress – Example, upon SAP review at the end of Spring 2010, Student A lost all Federal aid for the Fall 2010 semester. In searching for all Pell eligible students who are enrolled in summer coursework, we found Student A who earned 6 hours. Use Summer as the ‘penalty’ semester where student pays for coursework and now Student A gets aid reinstated for the Fall 2010 semester.

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