Support to understand your finances and answer your financial questions. Help prevent roadblocks and ensure you complete your degree.
MLFTC’s financial coaches work with you to strengthen and support your financial literacy. This includes hosting financial aid workshops for you and your parents — including sessions on how to manage student debt — and how to reduce it by filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and applying for scholarships, loans and grants.
What is financial coaching?
A financial coach helps with confidence related to your ability to acquire and utilize financial resources for the purpose of paying tuition and fees associated with your enrollment, as well as ancillary costs like books, supplies, housing, meals and transportation.
Our MLFTC financial coach does this in a variety of ways, including one-on-one consultations, emails, social media, group presentations and workshops. As we work together, your financial coach will provide you with a clear path, including the end goal and intermediary steps along the way.
Related links and resources
MLFTC resources
ASU resources
- ASU scholarships
- Grants through ASU
- Federal Teach Grant
- ASU student employment
- Private student loans
- Federal student loans
Other resources
- Teacher and public service loan forgiveness
- Complete your FAFSA
Frequently asked questions
Question/Concern/Need |
Who to contact: |
|---|---|
| For support in searching for additional scholarships, grants | Make an appointment with a Student Finance Ambassador, https://hayleedellssa.setmore.com/ or https://judahcrumssa.setmore.com/judahcrum |
| Questions about MLFTC scholarships, the Arizona Teachers Academy and other state funding programs benefitting MLFTC students | Contact Jezabel Teston, ATAaward@asu.edu, 480-727-5279 |
| For information regarding federal and private student loans, including the Parent PLUS | Please contact the ASU Financial Aid office, call 855-278-5080, chat online with a rep or submit a case, https://students.asu.edu/financial-aid |
| For questions about My ASU account charges | Contact Student Business Services, 480-965-5220 |
| General questions about the Federal TEACH Grant | Please visit: https://students.asu.edu/grants/teach |
| For help creating and maintening a budget and/or building a positive credit history | Make an appointment with a Student Finance Ambassador, https://hayleedellssa.setmore.com/ or https://judahcrumssa.setmore.com/judahcrum |
| For support in searching for additional resources to pay for summer tuition | Make an appointment with a Student Finance Ambassador, https://hayleedellssa.setmore.com/ or https://judahcrumssa.setmore.com/judahcrum |
| For support in determining how to submit a Satisfactory Academic Progress appeal | Please contact the ASU Financial Aid office, call 855-278-5080, chat online with a rep or submit a case, https://students.asu.edu/financial-aid |
| For support in determining how to submit a scholarship appeal, reinstatement or deferment | Please contact the ASU Financial Aid office, call 855-278-5080, chat online with a rep or submit a case, https://students.asu.edu/financial-aid |
| How will withdrawing from classes impact financial aid | Please contact the ASU Financial Aid office, call 855-278-5080, chat online with a rep or submit a case, https://students.asu.edu/financial-aid |
| Need to withdraw from classes due to financial concerns | links.asu.edu/mlftcSOSform |
| Inability to register for an upcoming semester due to an enrollment hold | Contact a Financial Coach at MLFTC-aid@asu.edu |
| Loan repayment and qualifying for loan forgiveness | Send an email with your questions to MLFTC-aid@asu.edu |
| Fulfilling the ATA's agreement, TEACH Grant's agreement to serve or the Arizona Teacher Student Loan Program after graduation | Send an email with your questions to MLFTC-aid@asu.edu |
| Prospective students' questions regarding how much their education will cost | Make an appointment with a Student Finance Ambassador, https://hayleedellssa.setmore.com/ or https://judahcrumssa.setmore.com/judahcrum |
| A complex financial issue that falls outside the categories listed above | Contact a Financial Coach at MLFTC-aid@asu.edu |
| Signature on the NES Waiver | Send email with the form to MLFTC-aid@asu.edu |
| Help filing the FAFSA | Make an appointment with a Student Finance Ambassador, https://hayleedellssa.setmore.com/ or https://judahcrumssa.setmore.com/judahcrum |
I always see the financial coach at the beginning and end of each semester. He’s always there for me and reminding me to sign up for FAFSA. Because of him, I’ve received more aid than I would have doing this on my own.
Sophia Hermosillo (BAE ’20)