Pugh takes over position

Susan Pugh, former director of the Office of Student Financial Assistance for IU and interim executive director of Student Financial Assistance, has been named associate vice chancellor for Enrollment Services. \nPugh, who has worked with IU students in the Office of Student Financial Assistance since 1969, said she will use her experience with student financial aid to help IU's Enrollment Services. Pugh said her extensive research on the factors influencing students' decisions to borrow money from the government and other financial institutions ultimately resulted in her decision to work in the area of student financial aid.\n"Financial aid is critical to increasing numbers of students who are making decisions relative to the college or university they wish to attend," Pugh said.\nIn addition to the policy making and planning her new position entails, Pugh will work with Donald Hossler, IU's vice chancellor for Enrollment Services and Roland Cote, IU's registrar and other associate vice chancellor for Enrollment Services.\n"Pugh is an excellent choice for this because of her knowledge of financial aid policy and financial aid delivery to IU students," Hossler said.\nPugh said that they are working on the implementation of a new student information system this fall, a computer system that will improve INSITE.\n"The computer system deals with many aspects that will help students in academic advising, class registration and financial aid," Hossler said. "The new system will be implemented on all campuses except for Fort Wayne, which uses the Purdue University system. Everything on INSITE will be replaced."\nAssociate Director of the Office of Student Financial Assistance Bill Ehrich, who has worked with Pugh since 1970, said he believes Pugh will be a great help to Enrollment Services because of Pugh's experience with IU's financial aid policies. \n"Pugh has been helping students since when financial aid for all campuses of Indiana University was awarded only out of Bloomington campus until the mid to late '70s when other IU campuses started to award financial aid to their students," Ehrich said. "Pugh's knowledge of financial aid policies in the past has made her an excellent choice in this new unique position"