Featured Reports
With Great Challenges Come Great Opportunities: Promising Practices of Texas Community Colleges This report examines how high-performing Texas community colleges meet the challenge of serving a diverse student population with widely varied goals, from academic degrees to technical certifications, remedial education, recreational self-fulfillment courses, and more. The report highlights effective strategies at three schools in Texas chosen for their higher than average persistence, workforce placement, and Pell recipient rates, and for their lower than average cohort default rates.
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Digging Deeper: An Analysis of Student Loan Debt in Texas This TG report to the 82nd regular session of the Texas Legislature examines multiple, converging issues related to student loan debt in Texas. In particular, the report probes how debt, and the fear of borrowing, influence student decisions that, in turn, alter students' odds of graduating.
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How to Graduate High-Risk Students: Lessons from Successful For-Profit Colleges and Schools in Texas This research report examines the factors — organizational practices and structures — that enable four Texas for-profit schools to succeed in retaining and graduating high-risk students.
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The Toughest Test: The Student Loan Liquidity Crisis of 2007-08 in Texas — This paper outlines the important factors leading to student loan "credit crunch," analyzing the subprime mortgage crisis, how it affected student loans, and the government response to the crisis.
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Ready, willing, and unable: How financial barriers obstruct bachelor-degree attainment in Texas — A report to the 80th regular session of the Texas Legislature.
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Summary Handout
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HBCU and HSI School Fact Sheets
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TG Research Presentations
Risk Factors for Dropping Out: Examining State and Regional Difficulties
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Institutional Default Studies
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Risk Factors for Dropping Out: Comparing the Southwest to the Nation
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Risk Factors for Dropping Out: Comparing Texas to the Nation
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Allow schools, students and families to quickly learn about key aspects of Texas Higher education institutions and to facilitate quick comparisons of institutions.
Key features: HTML and EXCEL versions are available; updated annually; searchable criteria to select schools; comparisons of schools; detailed data descriptions, including overviews by categories of schools (including school sector and Texas region); as well as PDF copies from prior years.
Types of statistics: Student outcomes, enrollment, college costs, loan volume, cohort default rates, legislative representation and student aid by source.
State of Student Aid and Higher Education in Texas (SOSA)
(Full Document — Adobe PDF, Updated November 2011)
Section 1: Texas Demographics
Section 2: Texas College Readiness
Section 3: Profile of Texas College Students
Section 4: Cost of Education and Source of Aid in Texas
Section 5: Grant Aid and Net Price in Texas
Section 6: Loans
Section 7: Debt, Need, Work and Financial Literacy
Section 8: Texas College Attainment
Section 9: Delinquencies, Defaults, and Collections
Section 10: Texas Higher Education Policy
To provide useful data about schools and borrowers within state and congressional legislative districts to facilitate effective communication between schools, lenders, and other financial aid professionals and their representatives.
Key features: PDF versions of each Texas House, Texas Senate and Texas Congressional district are available online.
Types of statistics: For borrowers attending schools in the legislative district, detailed loan, grant, unmet need, cost, indebtedness, and federal/state aid information is available; for borrowers from the district, loan volume information outlined by program type is available.
TG Integrated Default Assistant℠ (IDA℠)
To allow schools and lenders to more effectively target their default aversion resources by operating proactively and with intelligence to keep borrowers in repayment.
Key features: Ability to set criteria for identifying at-risk borrowers based on claim status and the number of days delinquent; use letter-writing functionality for schools; forecast future default rates; track delinquencies by month to determine peak and low seasons; select reports that will show lender and servicer default rates for your institution; track cohort default rates week by week.
Types of statistics: Lender and servicer cohort default rates; school default rate; default rates broken out by enrollment status and highest grade level attained; median borrower indebtedness; forecasts of future default rate; and delinquencies by month.
The following reports are available within IDA:
Users must have an AdvanTG Web account to use IDA. For more information, contact TG at (800) 332-1455 or send an email message to product.support@tgslc.org.