Dr. Larry Burt
Dr. Lawrence Burt served as Associate Vice President - Student Affairs and Director - Office of Student Financial Services at the University of Texas at Austin from 1994 until 2007. As Financial Aid Director at UCLA (1984-1994) Larry won numerous awards and accolades for his public speaking and innovative solutions for the delivery of financial aid. During his time at the University of Texas-Austin, Dr. Burt developed a number of unique scholarship programs and as a result the National Scholarship Providers Association recognized the University as the Scholarship Provider of the Year in 2003. Dr. Burt has been highly sought after to share his expertise on the use of scholarships in a changing legal environment.
In addition to his duties at the university, Dr. Burt has served on a number of commissions, councils and advisory boards. He has served on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) and the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Dr. Burt served as the founding chair of the Texas Student Services Efficiency Committee and as a member of the Council for the Management of Educational Finance. Larry has presented and authored several articles on a wide array of student support issues, most recently contributing to Get a Jump: The Financial Aid Answer Book and How to Pay for College.
Dr. Burt's decades of experience has qualified Larry to assist families in the most critical areas of planning for the college experience – financial planning (tax incentives for higher education and college funding strategies) and enrollment (admissions and financial aid).