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Identifier	Thesis 1954
Author	Neville, Katherine M.
Title	The Integration of Counseling into the Profession of Financial Aid Advising
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2008
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Today's campuses are becoming the learning grounds for an increasingly diverse student population. The "traditional" college student, age eighteen to twenty-two, sufficiently academically prepared, and having endless time to socialize and study, often portrayed in popular media outlets is no longer representative of the majority of students enrolled at colleges and universities across the nation. As our higher education system becomes more complex, made up of institutions with various missions and intentions, the students served by financial aid administrators have increasingly complex needs. Even on seemingly similar campuses the student body represents various religions, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and socio-economic statuses. Regardless of the categorical descriptions of students it is fairly safe to say that every student attending an institution of higher education has a unique financial circumstance and therefore different expectations of the financial services provided. It is becoming increasingly apparent that students could benefit a great deal by having an aspect of counseling integrated into the financial services provided by institutions in order to make appropriate decisions for their own situation. As the college student becomes less easily defined as a unified image the landscape of student services in higher education need to be increasingly fluid to suit the needs of the ever-changing student. Professionals in the field of Financial Aid have had to make some of the most tremendous changes as they have been called upon to change their approach from a field that had significantly been administrative to one that is advertised and based in service to students. Many institutions have gone as far as to restructure the organization of their institutions to include the financial aid office under Student Affairs as opposed to Enrollment or Academic Affairs. In the past the duties of a person in the financial aid profession were strictly administrative. A person in the field would evaluate a student's financial need based on concrete formulas and award them financial assistance in accordance to guidelines administered by the federal and state governments and institutional policies. Over time the idea of financial aid advising emerged and administrators of aid were given the power to exercise professional judgment based on individual circumstances. Many professionals who had spent their careers in a formulated financial aid world were suddenly confronted with the challenge of treating each student as an individual and being responsive to their personal situations. This transition poses many challenges to veteran aid administrators as they attempt to, or in some cases, resist change. Furthermore, the profession as a whole needs to respond to the changes by adjusting job descriptions, qualifications, professional development opportunities, and overall expectations. Too many aid professionals were, and still are, ill prepared to effectively communicate with and counsel students and very limited training is available to assist in their professional development. To that means I plan on exploring the various areas in which I think counseling methods could be best integrated in to the profession and what professional development opportunities could exist to allow all aid administrators to become more effective as they advise students.
Subject	Student financial aid administrators -- Training of Counseling in higher education
Department	Department of Counseling and Family Therapy
Advisor	Fried, Jane
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713733969
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