He suggested that financial aid officers read the local newspaper and talk with the police to keep track of drug arrests.

Q. What about getting information and assistance from the financial aid officer at the college?

Financial aid officers must also weigh whether a student, without a green card, can pay back a loan upon graduation.

By rights, a student who calls a college financial aid office should reach one of the college's aid officers.

Some financial aid officers argue that students are getting the best possible loan rates.

Some tactics like using financial aid officers as advisers and consultants are used by other companies.

That judgment will be made when the student meets the aid officer.

At the economic extremes, the new approach will probably have little effect, financial aid officers said.

Financial aid officers who serve as advisers get paid trips to meetings.

A university financial aid officer said the scholarship was good for two years.