{"id":305444,"date":"2019-08-07T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=305444"},"modified":"2019-08-07T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T20:00:01","slug":"financial-aid-workshop-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/financial-aid-workshop-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial aid workshop on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Marianas College is inviting those looking for financial aid to attend the FAFSA Workshop on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is the form used for applying to the federal financial aid program.<\/p>\n<p>Team members from NMC\u2019s Financial Aid Office will help workshop participants fill the online application form and also answer questions about the financial aid program. The workshop will consist of three sessions at 9am, 10am, and 11am, at NMC\u2019s computer lab in Building V in room V108.<\/p>\n<p>Space is limited for the workshop. Reserve a spot in one of the three sessions by emailing Financial Aid director Daisy Propst at\u00a0daisy.propst@marianas.edu\u00a0or by calling the Financial Aid Office at (670) 237-6791, 6793, or 6794.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and students who are attending the FAFSA workshop should know their social security number, and bring copies of their 2017 income tax returns and their 2017 W-2 (if not filing) to the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Those who fill out the FAFSA may be able to qualify for the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Federal Financial Aid program. The Federal Financial Aid program is the largest financial aid provider in the U.S. through its various types of grants, loans, and scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the FAFSA workshop, NMC will also be hosting a free information session from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. on Thursday, Aug. 8, at the NMC Olympio T. Borja Library at the college\u2019s As Terlaje campus.<\/p>\n<p>Those who attend will also qualify to receive a waiver of NMC\u2019s admission application fee and placement test fees\u2014a savings of up to $75.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the information session and\/or applying to NMC can be found by contacting the Office of Admissions and Records at (670) 237-6770, emailing\u00a0oar@marianas.edu\u00a0or visiting\u00a0www.marianas.edu. <strong>(NMC)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Marianas College is inviting those looking for financial aid to attend the FAFSA Workshop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}