A Message from Your President
Welcome to EASFAA! Bienvenido a EASFAA! Thank you for visiting our
website!
Our Regional Financial Aid Association stands resolute and adaptable with representation of the most prolific
financial aid organizations of Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Puerto Rico & the US Virgin Islands.
Together, these partners make up our Eastern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
(EASFAA), whose mission is to provide our members with professional development opportunities, which
are essential to preparing our membership to serve our students, parents/families and institutions that they
represent, in a very ethical, professional and competent manner.
EASFAA not only fills the unique and distinguished role of providing professional services to both its
individual members and state associations, it also acts as an advocate for regional policy positions with the
United States Congress and the National Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).
EASFAA, also, is responsible for facilitating communication between the States and the District
that comprise our Association. Our goal, in this regard, is to nurture better understanding and cooperation among
our diverse membership through the effective sharing of expertise and free exchange of ideas between our regional
colleagues, in order to benefit our membership.
Throughout the year, EASFAA offers its members many benefits through training and development opportunities via
an annual conference, a quarterly connection newsletter, fall/spring training, membership directory, leadership
opportunities, legislative advocacy, link between NASFAA and State organizations, committee involvement,
graduate/professional school forums, on-line connection through our website at
http://www.easfaa.org/ and ongoing opportunities to network with distinguished colleagues at the State,
Regional and National levels.
As a volunteer nonprofit membership organization, EASFAA thrives on the culture of volunteerism, which is the
spirit that drives us to constantly seek better ways to improve our profession. We applaud those who recognize
their duty, responsibility and obligation to give back to our profession by volunteering and encourage our
members to share in the spirit and joy of volunteerism, by signing up at
http://easfaa.org/docs/forms/memVolunteer.html and making
volunteerism a part of their personal and professional goals.
Within a few weeks, EASFAA will be embarking on a new membership initiative, as we transition from individual
to institutional membership. I hope you will exercise your right to vote and support institutional membership,
as we believe this mode will offer each member institution the best return on its investment, through membership
participation, training and professional development.
As we begin our 2010-2011 fiscal year, we continue to be faced with challenging economic times to which we must
adopt - therefore, we must be flexible and creative. We must improvise, adopt and overcome, in order to survive.
We must be fiscally responsible and manage our resources with shrewd intelligence. I believe, as a
volunteer-organization, we have learned from the past and that, when all the chaos and turmoil are over, we can
say: "Adversity made us grow."
Please plan to join us at our 2011 EASFAA Annual Conference, on May 15 to 18, at the Sheraton Society Hill
Hotel, in Philadelphia, PA. Our Conference Committee is already hard at work, so please help us make our
45th Annual Conference be EASFAA's best!
What are you doing for
Financial Aid Day? Please join in the celebration of EASFAA first
annual Financial Aid Day
on Wednesday, October 20, 2010.
Thanks, again, for visiting our website! I look forward to working with you and remember: I'm only an e-mail or
phone call away at brownn@easternct.edu or 860-465-4428.
Neville R. Brown
EASFAA President, 2010-2011
