From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Wed Apr 3 08:34:18 1996 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.03/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA02409; Wed, 3 Apr 96 08:34:17 -0800 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.03/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA11076; Wed, 3 Apr 96 08:34:17 -0800 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (uis.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.16]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA26777 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:19:42 -0800 Received: by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.6.12/1.35) id IAA29808; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:33:51 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:33:49 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: residency@u.washington.edu Cc: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: re: Icebreaker In-Reply-To: <"d006/mr000000000*"@MHS> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Thanks, Jolene, for your comments. I look forward to meeting y'all (in May?). After being in this residency business for eight years I've come to believe that it is more of an art than a science. I thought I'd see the end of new and unusual cases, but not so. I've noticed a great increase lately in the number of students with divorced parents, only one being a resident. With some of those there is a non-cooperative parent who refuses to furnish a tax return or complete the back side of the Res Q. I asked our fin aid director how she handles those; they have the student designate a "parent of record" (most likely it would be the least wealthy?) who furnishes the income info; perhaps they sometimes ignore or miss that information on a wealthy non-designated parent. Okay, here's another case for you: Do any of you know the rule on the Alaska Permanent Fund? It is a form of financial assistance from another state, requiring that recipients be bona fide residents of Alaska. I spoke with a student yesterday who got his APF check in October 95; it was his 1995 check. He had moved to Washington in August 95, changed his license, etc., in September. He applied as an independent student, although he has been living with his mother, who moved from Alaska to Port Angeles in June 95. (She also got the APF check in October 95!). When students have received the Alaska student loan, I tell them they can't be eligible for residency until one year after the quarter for which it was last received--if they got it for Spring 95, they wouldn't be eligible until Summer 96. But the APF, apparently, is a check sent to all eligible Alaska residents in the fall of each year. Do you know what sort of residency-eligibility calendar they use? January to December? October to October? Why did they send it to these people who had moved out of the state? Joe St.Hilaire Western .