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TA P Verifies t ion
Process
Applications for New York
State Tuition Assistance
Program will face tougher
scrutiny under a new Income
Verification Process developed
by the new York State Higher
Education Services Corpora-tion.
The TAP Income Verifica-tion
Process — now an integral
part of the TAP system — will
compare taxable income
figures submitted on every
student application with their
reported income on state tax
returns.
"In the past verification was
done on a very small scale,**
said Dominick Rotondi,
director of the new program.
"It was a manual process where
applications were chosen
randomly and double checked
with tax information."
The new computerized
process was developed by
HESC and the tax bureau as a
result of a joint study
undertaken in the fall of 1978.
"The study showed approxi-mately
22 percent of
applications filed had
discrepancies," Rotondi said.
Incorrect figures were due to
a variety of reasons including
incorrect rounding off of
income numbers, listing
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income in the wrong spot or
overstating income.
HESC is now verifying the
reported 1978 incomes on all
1979-80 TAP applications. If
any discrepancies are
discovered ,HESC will
recalculate awards. Students
will be notified only if a
change—increase or de-crease—
will be made in their
awards. Students will receive a
full description of award
adjustments, the recovery
process and the student appeal
process.
The agency announced it will
hold students liable for
restitution of any discovered
overpayments unless corporate
instructions were violated by
HESC. If necessary,students
will be referred to a collection
agency for return of
overpayments or the overpayed
amount will be deducted from
future awards.
Overpayment discrepancies
will not be a problem in the
future, Rotondi sayi because
adjustments will be made
before awards are announced.
The new verification process
should not affect existing
award procedures or
scheduling, Rotondi said and
the process will continue to be
run in August each year.
RAMBLER ALERT!!!
Students should park in designated
student lots only, not in any parking
lots across Melville Road. Violators
will be prosecuted.
Seedlings, anyone?
Donald Middleton, Re-gional
Director of the New
York State Department of
Environmental Conservation
announced today that tree and
shrub seedlings will be
available from the State this
year.
There will be seven different
species of trees and ten
different species of shrubs
available to the Long Island
area. These seedlings are ideal
for erosion control, wildlife
h a b i t a t , r e f o r e s t a t i o n,
windbreaks, and other
conservation practices.
Tree species ike Japanese
Black Pine that are excellent
for shoreline plantings, cost
$40 per thousand seedlings,
plus shipping. Shrubs like
Bittersweet, Autumn Olive,
Cranberry Viburnum and
INDUSTRY ON—CAMPUS
RECRUITMENT DRIVE
The Career Counseling and
Placement Office has
announced that recruiters from
Industry will be coming to the
campus to interview gradu-ating
students and graduates
for 'employments in their
companies. Companies already
scheduled include: Eastman
Kodak, GrumnuTn Aerospace,
Banker's Trust Company,
Fairchild Republic, Burroughs
Corp., MCC Powers, Guard-ian
Photo, Upjohn and IBM.
Interviews are by appointment
and pre-registration is
necessary.
In accordance with the
request of recruiters, it will be
necessary for students to attend
job readiness workshops and
have a resume as a prerequisite
to signing up for interviews.
"This requirement resuhs from
opinions expressed by
recruiters on previous year
evaluation forms,** stated Anita
Tritell, Director of the Career
Counseling and Placement
Office. **Recruiters state that
many students whom they
interviewed could not
effectively market their skills in
an interview and that they
could tell which ones had
participated in the Job
Readiness Workshops."
Job Readiness Workshops
are conducted on an on-going
basis. Topics include Resume
Preparation, Interview
Preparation and Job Search
Techniques.
For further information and
to sign up for a workshop,
contact the Career Counseling
and Placement' Office in the
Administration Building, room
116 or call 420-2296 or 420:;^
2163. by Anita Tritell
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Crabapply which are excellent
for wildlife, are available for
$10 per hundred seedlings, plus
shipping, also available are
packets containing mixes of
both trees and shrubs for $10
per hundred plus shipping. For
those people with small back
yards who would like to plant
shrubs for song birds, there is
an urban packet containing a
mixture of 25 shrubs for $5 plus
shipping.
For more information and
order forms contact:
New York State Department
of Environmental Conserva-tion
Division of Lands and
Forests
State University of New
York
Building 40
Stony Brook, NY 11794.
Students Eligible For
$17,000 in Financial
Aid
A new, non-profit service for
students was announced today.
Designed to find all of the
scholarships, loans, grants and
work study opportunities for
students at the high school,
undergraduate and graduate
levels, the new service
guarantees that each applicant
will receive at least $100 in aid.
According to Steve Danz,
Director of the Scholarship
Bank, the average student
applicant is received thirty two
"leads" on scholarship
information, with a combined
valued of $17,000, and that
figure doesn't even include those
aid sources that are renewable
for future years of study.
. Students are given scholarship
information on those sources
for which they are potentially
eligible. The student then
decides which sources to
actually apply for.
An analysis of the more than
15,000 individual entries in the
data bank indicates that about
30% are based on need, about
30% on merit and te remainder
on a combination or other
factors. The Scholarship Bank
is the only source for all aid
sources, including graduate
grants.
The key to the data bank is
the questionnaire that each
student fills out. Requested
information concerns age, sex,
marital status, year in school,
schools attending, major,
occupational goals, jobs held,
religion, parents union,
employment and military
information, and a variety of
other factors. Cost of the
service is only $25.
Interested students should
send a stamped, self-addressed
envelope (and save themselves
approximately 100 hours of
research) to The Scholarship
Bank, 10100 Santa Monica
Blvd., No. 750, Los Angeles,
CA. 90067, or call toll-free 800-
1327-9191 ext ^Q-^
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