Northwest Presentations

HighPoint's Financial Aid Course Audit is a bolt-on product to PeopleSoft Campus Solutions that Virginia Community College System (VCCS) implemented to help its 23 intitutions comply with the Department of Education’s regulations on Course Applicability, Remedial Credits and Repeat Coursework. The FA Course Audit module ensures that appropriate information is updated to only account for courses that are in the student’s program of study and that do not exceed the permissible limits for remedial credits and repeat coursework. VCCS students are able to view the FA impact on their classes with messages that inform them of the classes that are not covered by Financial Aid as well as the reason why they are not covered. College staff can view the date and time of when the student opened the message. College staff also has the capability to view the output of the process and grant exceptions when needed. With an effective communication methodology, vast majority of students switched their enrollment that were FA eligible and we have the stats to prove that.