TG Updates

TG Speakers Bureau offers three new training programs for professional development
Financial aid offices looking to help build effective work habits at their institutions may be interested in three new offerings from the TG Speakers Bureau, a program that offers free training that FFELP partners can customize to their needs.

Trends and Issues

TG gathers financial aid research tools
The financial aid and, more broadly, higher education industries are replete with electronic resources that can help you find the information you need. TG has gathered many of these tools — a good portion of which are available from our corporate website, TG Online — here in one place, for your convenience.

Legislative Update

For a wealth of timely information on student financial aid issues and initiatives at the federal and state levels, be sure to review the two latest issues of TG's Legislative Report.

The November 10 edition follows the latest developments in major student financial aid-related and HEA reauthorization legislation pending before Congress. Also included are copies of two recent letters sent to the Texas Congressional delegation: a November 7 letter on the proposed repeal of the single-holder rule, sent by TASFAA, ATLE, and TG on behalf of the Texas student loan community, and a November 6 letter outlining TG's response to the recent U.S. News & World Report article, "Big Money On Campus."

The November 14 edition includes updates on student financial aid proposals from several of the Democratic presidential candidates, appropriations bills for FY 2004, and final federal budget and deficit figures for FY 2003 from the Congressional Budget Office. Also included are updates on the work of interim study committees looking at various student financial aid issues for the Texas legislature.

Read the full reports on TG Online at www.tgslc.org/lege_report/index.cfm.

This, That, and the Other...

How does the U.S. education system stack up against other major industrialized countries? This question prompted the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to make in-depth comparisons in five key areas: the context of education, preprimary and primary education, secondary education, higher education, and the impact of education on the labor force. To find out how we did, review the report "Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2002," available online at www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003026.