Training

NASFAA CORE Credential Training - March 2026

Thursday, March 12th, 2026, at 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session – Select One:

Administrative Capability, Catherine Boscher-Murphy President/Owner of CBM Enterprises Inc.

Catherine began her Financial Aid career, accidentally of course, 43 years ago. She has a variety of experiences including 4-year public and independent colleges, vocational-technical schools and multi-campus proprietary colleges. Catherine owns and manages CBM Enterprises, inc., an educational management consulting company, providing post-secondary institutions with expertise in various financial aid areas. From that experience, Catherine became the Compliance Officer at Montclair State University.
She has been an active member of NJASFAA since the late 80’s; she served as President and has continued to be involved on numerous committees. Catherine has been a member of EASFAA over the years and, most recently, Chair of the NASFAA/EASFAA Credential Training Committee. Currently, Catherine holds 12 NASFAA Core credentials. And PJ is her favorite subject!

Verification, Asia Taj, FAAC, Director of Financial Aid for Compliance & Operations, NJIT

Asia Taj serves as the Director of Financial Aid for Compliance and Operations, bringing over 20 years of experience in financial aid administration. She is also a past president of NJASFAA (New Jersey Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators).

Sessions will be from 10:30am - 2:30pm with registration and light breakfast beginning at 10:00am.

Participants are encouraged to bring a snack or bagged lunch. Free parking is available behind the building.
Participants must stay for the entire training in order to be eligible for the credential exam post-session.

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Free with 2025-26 NJASFAA membership

Webinar: V1 Verification and Tax Related Conflicting Information

Presented by Robert Weinerman, Director of Training – Iron Bridge Resources

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, at 10:00 AM

Verification and reviewing files for conflicting information are two of the core responsibilities of financial aid administrators (FAAs). In this webinar, we will start with the basics: what is verification; what is conflicting information; and what are the important differences between them. With this foundation, we will look at the role the Federal Tax Information (FTI) plays in verification, when we have conflicting information in an ISIR that contains FTI (whether or not an applicant is selected for V1/V5 verification), and how we would resolve tax and FTI related conflicting information when we find it. Next, we will look at the documentation we need to collect to complete verification, including the five unique circumstances defined by Federal Student Aid: rollovers, amended tax returns, when we have a joint tax return but only one person on that return is a FAFSA contributor, tax-related identity theft, and tax filers who have not filed their tax returns by the October 15 automatic extension deadline. Finally, we will look at the challenges faces by foreign FAFSA contributors and what FAAs need to do properly verify a selected application, and identify egregious examples of incorrectly completed income tax data.

Robert Weinerman started his financial aid career in 1993 as a financial aid officer at MIT – where he quickly became the aid officer who reviewed the most complicated tax returns that families submitted. After more than a decade as an aid officer at MIT, Babson College, and a few other schools in the Boston area, Robert left the aid office to counsel students and parents about saving and paying for college as the Senior Director of College Finance at College Coach.
Robert began his current career as a trainer for financial aid officers in 2014, focusing specifically on financial aid and the tax code - and was selected by Jim Briggs as Jim's successor when Jim retired from tax training to work on his other businesses.

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Free with 2025-26 NJASFAA membership

Webinar: FSA Conference Recap

Monday March 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM

In light of the many changes our communities will face with the start of the 2026-2027 academic year, we thought it might be helpful to hear from colleagues, in the form of a recap, about some of the happenings presented at the 2026 Federal Student Aid Conference held this year on March 4-6, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

Session Volunteers
Alejandro "Alex" Guiral, FAAC, Associate Vice President, Berkeley College
Asia Taj, FAAC, Director of Financial Aid for Compliance and Operations, NJIT