2009 NASFAA Survey of Graduate Aid Policies, Procedures, and Practices

Thank you for participating in the 2009 Survey of Graduate Aid Policies, Practices, and Procedures (SOGAPPP). The survey project is sponsored by NASFAA’s Graduate and Professional Issues Committee and the Research Committee. The results of the SOGAPPP will be used by NASFAA in its research and the summary results will be communicated to the membership and to participating non-member responders to better inform best practices in graduate and professional aid administration. Financial aid offices serving professional and graduate students may also find the results useful for their own benchmarking use and self-assessment purposes.

Important: All responses to this survey should be based on financial aid awards, policies, and practices during the 2007-08 academic year. Please keep in mind that the data you provide should be based on financial aid policies and practices you followed for distributing funds to graduate and/or professional students. These students are defined as those seeking a degree or certificate above a bachelor’s degree during the appropriate year. The results of the survey data will be most useful in impacting future practice when they are reported in a discipline-specific fashion. If your institution offers several graduate/professional disciplines, (for example, Medicine, Law, and Business) a survey will need to be completed for each discipline.

All NASFAA member respondents will be eligible for a drawing to win a complimentary registration to the 2009 NASFAA National Conference in San Antonio, TX. As an incentive for non-NASFAA member schools, NASFAA will also offer a complimentary NASFAA one-year school membership as a separate drawing. Responses must be received by April 15, 2009, in order to be eligible for the drawings.

All responses to this survey will be kept completely confidential. If, however, there is a question you find objectionable, please skip it and answer the remaining questions.

It is not necessary to complete the entire survey in one setting. If you are interrupted with other tasks while responding to the survey, click on the “Save” button of the screen and your responses from that page and all previous pages will be saved automatically. You can then exit the survey and resume responding at a later time.

If you have any questions on the 2009 SOGAPPP project or results, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Meihua Zhai, NASFAA's Director of Research and Policy Analysis, at zhaim@nasfaa.org or (202) 785-6952. Remember to respond by April 15, 2009 in order to become eligible for the drawings (free 2009 conference registration for NASFAA members, free one-year institutional NASFAA membership for non members).

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