TG Updates

Conference Guest Speakers Help Define "The Big Picture"
This year's TG Conference combines the electrifying excitement of Hollywood with a high-powered agenda featuring nationally recognized industry experts. The 2002 TG Conference agenda offers a series of speakers who will help you to take a leading role in the national student loan conversation.

Online Customer Idea Center Ready for Your Ideas
TG looks to the financial aid community for inspirational ideas and valuable suggestions. TG has developed an online Customer Idea Center for you to share ideas and suggestions with us.

Innovative Council Seeks Leading Minds
Established in 1997 as the first organization of its kind, the Council for the Management of Educational Finance (the Council) provides proactive leadership in default prevention. The Council creates innovative solutions to assist students and institutions in adopting sound debt management and default prevention practices. And now, this creative organization is looking for new leaders.

TG Solutions and Tools

Creating a TG Loans By Web™ Preferred Lender List
The success of any student loan process requires all industry partners to know how the process works and to understand how the various tools in the process work together. One process that we've received questions about is the one by which a school creates a Preferred Lender List in TG Loans By Web™

Quick Links

• TG's Customer Idea Center.
• Register for the 2002 TG Conference.
• Nominate Council Members.

A Day in the Life

• ...of TG's Educational Alliances

This, That, and the Other...

The Student Guide 2002-2003 is now available from the U.S. Department of Education. The guide is a comprehensive resource on student financial aid that offers guidance on all aspects of student financial aid including applying for grants, loans, and work-study. Some of the additional topics covered in the guide include scholarship scams and borrower rights and responsibilities.

The 2002-2003 guide provides guidance for July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2003, and is available in English and Spanish. (The 2001-2002 guide is for the award year July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2002.)

The guide is available online in both an interactive and a printer-friendly PDF version at www.ed.gov/prog_info/SFA/
StudentGuide/2002-3/index.html. You can also request a printed copy of the guide by calling the Federal Student Aid Information Center toll-free number at 1-800-4-FED-AID.

Take a look at Adventures In Education, TG's Public Awareness website.