Coordination of Resources

The Financial Aid & Scholarship Office is responsible for coordinating all student resources to prevent overawards. An overaward occurs when the total of a student's financial aid and certain resources exceeds the cost of attendance, or annual budget.

Federal and state regulations require the coordination of all financial aid, including external (private) scholarships and grants, fellowships, fee waivers including the Cal-Vet fee waiver, stipends, and vocational rehabilitation and other educational benefits. All Title IV programs (federally-funded financial aid), other federal, and non–federal programs must be monitored in conjunction with all available information on student resources to avoid financial aid overawards. 

The Financial Aid & Scholarship Office has established procedures for need analysis, award review, verification, disbursements, and overaward monitoring which ensure compliance with the award and student resource coordination requirements. We do all we can to prevent overawards because they can result in a student having to repay aid for which they are ineligible.

If you are expecting an external scholarship, a check will likely be mailed directly to the university. If a scholarship check is sent to you, please bring it to: Student Financial Services in the Student Services Center 230 or mail to: California State University, Chico, Student Financial Services, 940 W 1st Street, Chico, CA 95929-0242.

Cal-Vet and other fee waivers, as well as stipends, will be reported by Student Financial Services to the Financial Aid & Scholarship Office for coordination with other aid. Other educational resources (such as Vocational Rehabilitation Benefits, Resident Assistant Benefits, AmeriCorps funds, etc.) will be reported to us when payment is received by the University, and also will be coordinated with your financial aid.

If you have any questions about coordination of outside resources with your financial aid, please call us at 530-898-6451, email finaid@csuchico.edu, or stop by our office in Student Services Center 250.