2025 CONFERENCE AGENDA

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Sunday, OCTOBER 26

  • Presenter - Lori Hartung - ECSI

    COMING SOON

  • Check in at the PDG Registration & Information desk to pick up your name badge and conference materials. Conference staff are here throughout the conference to answer your questions.

  • Meet exhibitors with creative technology and service solutions in the Exhibit Hall. Don't forget to get your PDG passport stamped at each exhibitor table to be eligible for fun giveaways and prizes!

  • Presenter: Steven Selander - President, Professional Development Group III

  • Enjoy coffee and tea in the ballroom foyer while you network and visit with exhibitors on service/product offerings.

  • Presenter: Patrick Beirne - Wayne State University

    This presentation lays out all aspects of the student accounts receivables aging process, including methodology and strategies for success - from the onset of billing through the allowance and write off process. Learn together strategies for maximizing recovery and student retention from pre-delinquency, through pre-collect, to agency referral, all the way through bad debt write-off. During this presentation we will develop understanding of the importance of reporting and data analysis to gauge historical success in student receivables recovery.

  • Transition break between concurrent sessions.

  • Join your colleagues for a private reception.

Monday, OCTOBER 27

  • PDG conference staff are available during this time if you have any questions.

  • Meet exhibitors with creative technology and service solutions in the Exhibit Hall. Don't forget to get your PDG passport stamped at each exhibitor table to be eligible for fun giveaways and prizes.

  • Join your colleagues for a hearty breakfast.

  • Presenter: Lori Hartung - ECSI

  • Enjoy coffee and tea in the ballroom foyer while you network and visit with exhibitors on service/product offerings.

  • Presenter: Michael Matkowsky - Schuerger Law Group

    This session will cover new and updated hot topics in collection litigation with an emphasis on incorporating compliant strategy into litigation efforts. This session will discuss internal and external factors that collection law firms face from evolving regulatory challenges to heightened judicial scrutiny.

    Key learning points and practical skills in this session: stay up to date on compliance, regulatory, and case law developments. Implement policies and procedures for effective and efficient collection litigation from cradle to grave. Develop a big-picture plan for litigating university-based collection portfolios.

  • Transition break between concurrent sessions.

  • Enjoy lunch.

  • Enjoy coffee and tea in the ballroom foyer while you network and visit with exhibitors on service/product offerings.

  • Presenter: Joe Weglarz - Marist University

    This session will cover the recent updates in the financial aid industry. Topics include the FAFSA application process, federal aid eligibility requirements including the new SAI. In addition, discussion on the recent federal bill and its effect on Federal Loan Programs. How will these changes effect affordability options?

  • Presenter: Patrick Beirne - Wayne State University.

    This presentation will tell the story of Wayne State University's first of its kind Warrior Way Back program, an initiative started in 2018 that used student account debt forgiveness as a strategy to reengage students towards undergraduate graduation. Learn from program administrators how debt forgiveness can drive student reengagement while yielding high financial return on investment for the university. In this presentation we will also discuss the changing landscape of higher education enrollment and collections, the evolution of the Bursar role - and why thinking outside the box in retaining students is now more important than ever.

  • Transition break between concurrent sessions.

Tuesday, OCTOBER 28

  • PDG conference staff are available during this time if you have any questions.

  • Meet exhibitors with creative technology and service solutions in the Exhibit Hall. Don't forget to get your PDG passport stamped at each exhibitor table to be eligible for fun giveaways.

  • Join your colleagues for a hearty breakfast.

  • Enjoy coffee and tea in the ballroom foyer while you network and visit with exhibitors on service/product offerings.

Agenda is subject to change.