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TG Updates

AdvanTG Web™ makes exporting data simpler
Whether it's a loan response or a disbursement roster, one of the tasks most frequently performed using AdvanTG Web™ is exporting data. TG has incorporated the benefits of today's technologies into AdvanTG Web, making exporting data an easy process.

TG's Sunset Review report released
The initial phase of TG's review by the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission (SAC) has been completed. The staff report, including findings and recommendations, concerning TG was published on October 18. The positive report has reaffirmed TG's commitment and ability to efficiently serve its customers, and to provide students and their families with higher education financing and awareness information to help them achieve their education and career goals.

Trends and Issues

College Board releases annual reports
The College Board recently released its annual reports on financial aid and college pricing. The reports show a rapid increase in financial aid and a smaller increase in tuition compared to last year.

Mapping Your Future chat reminder…
Mapping Your Future will offer a chat event on loan forgiveness, discharge, and cancellation on Tuesday, November 9, 2004. The live event, scheduled for 6 p.m. (CST), provides a unique opportunity to receive guidance on loan forgiveness and the financial aid processes from student financial aid experts from across the country. The event is part of MYF's 2004-2005 chat lineup.

Common Review Initiative update
Guarantors across the country are meeting this week in Austin, Texas for annual training on the Common Review Initiative (CRI), a collaborative effort to perform joint program reviews of large lenders using multiple guarantors.

Tip of the Week

Visit TG's Virtual Default Conference at www.tgslc.org/DP_KBase for default prevention strategies you can implement on your campus today.

This, That, and the Other...

The average loan amount received by full-time undergraduates during 1989-90 was $4,100; in contrast, the average loan amount received during 1999-2000 was $6,200. The National Center for Education Statistics recently released a statistical overview of comparisons in undergraduate student aid.

The report "A Decade of Undergraduate Student Aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000" examines tuition rate increase compared to inflation and median household income, the increase in financial aid, and the impact of the 1992 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act on student financial aid.

For more information, visit ED's NCES website at www.nces.ed.gov.











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Contributors to this edition: Jennifer Evrard, Sean Goggin, Nina Hold, Sandy Keller, Art Martinez, Susan Martinez, and George Torres. Edited by TG Communications and Policy and Regulatory Affairs. Designed by TG Communications.

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