Departing for "Bluer Skies"
Tomorrow morning, I will be jet setting across the continent as I make my way to Aspen, Colorado for the bi-annual (in this case, every other year) COFHE Financial Aid Director's Retreat. For those of you who do not know, COFHE is the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, a group of thirty-one private colleges who share common interests and concerns.
This year's conference theme is “Blue Skies: Envisioning the Future” and promises to be a great opportunity to network with colleagues and talk about the greater themes in the work we do.
One presentation to which I am especially looking forward is a sort of “Technology Show and Tell” during which I will be making a presentation on blogging as a new outreach tool for financial aid offices to consider. Since Matt and Ben have already done this for NEACAC this may seem “old hat” to you, but this will be the first time I am presenting on the subject to my financial aid colleagues.
As part of the presentation, we will be logging in to the blog to see its organization and purpose, so if you want to leave a message for the attendees, feel free to do so below by commenting on this post.
Besides the log in during the presentation, I will try to log in from under the “blue skies” of Aspen daily (I am taking my laptop with me), but just in case of technical issues, don't expect many updates until after I return (on Thursday).