Financial Aid Staff
Monica Smart | Director of Financial Aid
Job Description: Financial Aid Program Supervision, Team Leadership, Workflow Management, Federal/State/Institutional Policy Oversight
Favorite Verse: Now faith is being sure what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. - Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)
Matthew Eurek | Associate Director of Financial Aid
Job Description: Financial Aid Awarding Strategy, Financial Aid Packaging, Tuition Remission/Tuition Exchange
Favorite Verse: Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing, and perfect will. - Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Financial Aid Counselors
Geoffrey Miller | Financial Aid Counselor
Job Description: Athletics, Change in Circumstance Applications
Favorite Verse: Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6 (NIV)
Jordan Walker | Financial Aid Counselor
Job Description: General Financial Aid Counseling, Partner School Scholarships, Music Scholarship, Baptist Minister’s Dependent Scholarship, Johnson O’Connor
Favorite Verse: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” - Jeremiah 17:7-8 (ESV)
Ashley Wiedeman | Financial Counselor
Job Description: Verification, Withdraws
Favorite Verse: Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. -Romans 12:12 (NIV)
Enrique Castaneira | Financial Aid Counselor
Job Description: Texas Equalization Grant (TEG), Federal Pell Grant, Federal Work-Study, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG), TASFA Student Applications
Favorite Verse: If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself. -2 Timothy 2:13 (NIV)
Financial Aid Coordinators
Brett Hawkins | Technical Coordinator
Job Description: System Support
Favorite Verse: But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. - Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)
Barry Pupella | Compliance Coordinator
Job Description: Oversees Title IV/Federal Aid Program Compliance Updates and Regulations, Creates/Maintains the Financial Aid Policy and Procedure Manual, Assists the Director of Financial Aid with Uniform Guidance Audit and Cost of Attendance creation, Financial Aid Webpage Management.
Favorite Verse: So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. - Isaiah 41:10 (ESV)
Melinda Murphy | Title IV Coordinator
Job Description: Federal and Private Loans, Financial Aid Programs Reconciliation, Degree Audit
Favorite Verse: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. - Philippians 4:13
Bella Brenek | Student Service Coordinator
Job Description: Office Management, Student Communication
Favorite Verse: For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39
Titanyna Hudson | Student Service Coordinator
Job Description: Support and advise students and families on financial aid options, application processes, and eligibility requirements.
Favorite Verse: Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. - Proverbs 3:5-7