TG Updates

TG workshops coming to Lubbock and Austin in December
If you and your financial aid team are looking to end the year on a professional good note, two more of TG's regional training workshops will be offered before year's end. Regional training workshops will be offered in Lubbock and at TG's campus in Round Rock on December 9.

TG will continue to accept expired forms
On October 31, 2004, the Teacher Loan Forgiveness, Teacher Loan Forgiveness Forbearance, and Unpaid Refund forms expired. As ED continues to work with the community to revise theses forms, TG will accept the current forms until new ones become available.

Holiday closure reminder
TG will be closed on Thursday, November 11, 2004, in observance of Veterans Day.

Common Manual

Common Manual team meets with industry
On September 21, 2004, the Common Manual Governing Board met with industry participants in Washington, DC. Previous board chair, Becky Collins, and current chair, Betsy Mayotte, presided over the informal meeting to report on the current status of the Common Manual and to solicit feedback from the education community on ways to further improve the manual.

This, That, and the Other...

In celebration of Veterans Day, the History Channel will air a youth-oriented documentary titled Veterans Day, which explores the meaning and history of the national holiday. The documentary is another in a series that is part of a cooperative venture between ED and the History Channel aimed at making students more aware of the importance of our national holidays. Other documentaries look at the history of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents Day, and Labor Day.

Veterans Day commemorates Armistice Day when the guns fell silent in World War I in the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The show will emphasize the sacrifices that the men and women in the military have made to protect the foundation of the United States and its democratic ideals.

The program will air on the History Channel at 7 a.m. (CST) on Thursday, November 11.

For more information visit www.historychannel.com or www.ed.gov/news/
pressreleases/2004/
08/08252004.html.