TG updates

Texas financial aid community recognizes Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance
At the TG Conference held during the last week of April, the Texas financial aid community — which includes the Texas Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (TASFAA), the Association of Texas Lenders for Education (ATLE), and TG — recognized the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance for its 15 years of service.

Common Manual

Common Manual Updates
Information on recent updates to the Common Manual.

Legislative update

The May 1, 2003, issue of the Legislative Report provides updates on Congress’s return to a busy legislative agenda and the tax cut package currently under consideration in the Senate. Also provided are updates on student financial aid, tuition, and fees legislation filed in the Texas Legislature, and the status of student financial aid-related bills currently in Congress. Read the full report on TG Online at http://www.tgslc.org/lege_report/2003/lr_030501.cfm.

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A smaller proportion of Hispanics complete college as compared to Whites and African Americans. According to Status and Trends in the Education of Hispanics released recently by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in 2000, only 10 percent of Hispanics ages 25 to 29 had completed a bachelor’s degree, as compared to 34 percent of Whites and 18 percent of African Americans in the same age group.

According to the report, over 1 in 4 Whites over the age of 25 (28 percent) have at least a bachelor’s degree, while only about 1 in 10 Hispanics (11 percent) and 1 in 6 African Americans (17 percent) do. Access the full report online at the NCES website at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003008.