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refund checks not fault of
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Laila Yette
Staff Writer
Refund checks should be deliv-ered
to students before the start
of classes Jan. 14, according to
Financial Aid Director Deborah
Tollefson.
Each year countless students
complain about the time it takes
for them to receive refund checks,
but Tollefson says that when stu-dents
receive their checks is ul-timately
not up to Financial Aid
but to the students themselves.
Most students would be sur-
' prised to learn that the process
for passing out fall semester
checks begins in January, but it
is not only up to Financial Aid to
get the checks ready.
"Not everybody knows they're
going to come to school in Janu-ary
before fall semester starts, so if
you do, you'll have a refund check
before the first day of classes,"
says Tollefson. "The checks aren't
late. Students start in the process
closer to the beginning of the
semester, so we keep processing
their applications, but we can't
give them money until they're
eligible to receive it"
Because there is no cutoff date
when checks can not longer be
processed, Financial Aid is always
available and willing to work with
students to get their checks out to
them as soon as possible.
"We're happy to work with
students ... Our goal is to get
students their money because we
don't want Financial Aid to be a
stumbling block," adds Tollefson
Over winter break Financial
Aid has a window in which they
must start preparing to get the
checks out.
"We do everything we can to
get stuff ready for everybody,"
continues Tollefson. "[Students]
can check on UNCGenie and see
if there's any missing information
while they're on vacation, and
that would help ensure they get
their check on the first run."
One of the biggest problems Fi-nancial
Aid encounters between
semesters is the changing of ad-dresses.
Because many students
move over winter break, they
forget or do not realize they must
inform Financial Aid so that their
refund check is not sent to the
old address. Numerous students
call and complain that they have
not received their checks when in
fact they normally would have,
but only if they let Financial Aid
know about the address change.
After Financial Aid makes sure
everyone is eligible, they pass on
the information to the Office of
Cashier and Student Accounts.
Once this is done, Financial Aid is
out the equation so students must
contact the Cashier and Student
Accounts office.
No matter what office your in-formation
is being passed to, the
main goal is to get students their
money. To help students with
their questions, Financial Aid has
set up a system where students are
able to do web chats with faculty,
which can be accessed through
the Financial Aid website.
For more information, contact
the Financial Aid Office at 334-
5702, send an email to finaid@
uncg.edu, or visit their website at
fia.uncg.edu.
Former UNC system
president helps provide
funds for professorships
Stephanie Patton
News Editor
CD. Spangler, former president
of the UNC system and advocate
for public education, is endowing
a professorship at UNCG. The
distinguished professorship is in
honor of Spangler's fourth grade
teacher, Helena Gabriel Hous-ton,
whom Spangler speaks very
highly of.
"I can remember where I sat
in her classroom and so could
she," said Spangler according to
a recent news release. "She re-membered
the other students in
the class, too. She did wonder-ful
work in her classroom for 40
years. I had several strong teach-ers
at Dilworth, but Miss Gabriel
was particularly strong. She was
the best."
According to the press release,
matching fund initiatives, pro-vided
and started by the CD.
Spangler Foundation, are help-ing
to create the Helena G. Hous-ton
Professorship in Science
Education.
The programs will help 16 Uni-versity
of North Carolina cam-puses,
including UNCG, create a
total of 96 distinguished profes-sorships
each year over the next
five years, by making $26.9 mil-lion
available to support their
creation. The professorships will
be in the fields of teacher educa-tion,
engineering, nursing, and
the traditional arts and sciences.
UNCG will apply for $333,000
in matching funds from the state's
N.C Distinguished Professorship
Endowment Trust Fund, since al-ready
receiving $667,000 for the
endowment.
"This is an amazing gift to the
university system, and UNCG will
benefit tremendously from it,"
said Chancellor Sullivan. "Presi-dent
Spangler has said that Mrs.
Houston was an excellent teacher
who inspired him as a student.
This new professorship and the
opportunity to create five others
will allow us to recruit and retain
top faculty in critical needs areas
in the state."
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