TG Updates

NASFAA countdown: Come celebrate your achievements with TG
TG is bringing one its most popular sessions from recent workshops to NASFAA. If you will be attending the NASFAA Conference later this month, consider adding "Making a Difference: One Student at a Time" to your itinerary. Utilizing an inspiring video from award-winning photographer DeWitt Jones, this session celebrates the difference financial aid professionals are making in the lives of families and students.

TG Speakers Bureau adds five new programs
Financial aid offices looking to offer professional development and industry training for their staff may be interested in five new offerings from TG's Speakers Bureau. The new sessions can help build program knowledge, strengthen effective work habits, and create a positive service culture in your office.

Trends and Issues

Edufacts™ — June 2004
Each month, TG provides current information about education issues through Edufacts. Produced by TG as a public service, Edufacts illustrate studies and surveys conducted by TG and other educational organizations, and trends observed. In June, Edufacts looked at rising college costs.

This, That, and the Other...

The postsecondary education enrollment rates of young adults who speak a language other than English at home are strongly associated with their English-speaking ability, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

For example, among Spanish-speaking 18- to 24-year-olds, those who spoke English very well were substantially more likely than those who spoke English with difficulty to be enrolled in postsecondary education (31 percent vs. 6 percent).

The report also notes that the number of youth and young adults speaking a language other than English at home more than doubled between 1979 and 1999, from 6 million to 14 million.

The full report, entitled "Language Minorities and Their Educational and Labor Market Indicators — Recent Trends," is available on the NCES website at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004009.