{"id":10201,"date":"2018-02-05T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T22:06:20","slug":"mandatory-1l-debt-counseling-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/mandatory-1l-debt-counseling-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: MANDATORY 1L DEBT COUNSELING WORKSHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention all 1Ls:<\/p>\n<p>Kim Siwarski, Education Services Manager of Access Group, will be hosting a workshop on Maximizing Your Loan School Dollars for all 1L students on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Thursday,\u00a0February 8th at <em><strong>1:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em> in Room 226.<\/span>\u00a0A pizza lunch\u00a0will be provided, but\u00a0please bring your own beverage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is still time to sign up:<\/strong> Additionally you can sign up for an\u00a0individual debt counseling session with Kim Siwarski via <a href=\"https:\/\/doodle.com\/poll\/iyhu7w4nkc2zdm4i\">this Doodle link<\/a>. Sessions will last about 20 minutes each, and they will be held in room 338. Times vary on both Wednesday, February 7th and Thursday, February 8th. These sessions are for students who would like more detailed guidance. It is highly recommend that you attend the group session to get a base knowledge of repayment prior to your appointment. Space is limited, and for this reason appointments will be made on a first come first serve basis.<\/p>\n<p>There is some preparation needed for the individual debt counseling sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Print out loan record from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nslds.ed.gov\/npas\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.nslds.ed.gov\/npas\/index.htm.\u00a0<\/a>This will allow the presenter to give you the most accurate and detailed information possible including payment estimates under the various plans available.<\/li>\n<li>Review the loan repayment plan options contained in The Road to Zero: A Strategic Approach to Student Loan Repayment at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accesslex.org\/federal-student-loan-repayment-road-zero\">https:\/\/www.accesslex.org\/federal-student-loan-repayment-road-zero<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Begin to\u00a0think about your short- and long-term financial and career goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The items\u00a0above are very important pre-appointment steps to ensure that\u00a0you get the most out of\u00a0your allotted\u00a0time. Otherwise the time is spent looking up\u00a0your loans and explaining the repayment plan basics.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions please email <a href=\"mailto:lgrdner2@memphis.edu\">Abby Gardner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention all 1Ls: Kim Siwarski, Education Services Manager of Access Group, will be hosting a workshop on Maximizing Your Loan School&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stud-affairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10402,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}