TG Updates

TG hosts 2006 lender and servicer training
TG held its 2006 Annual Lender and Servicer Training on Thursday, January 26, 2006, in Round Rock, Texas, welcoming more than 90 lender partners for a day of industry training and professional development.

TG improves functionality of Enhanced EFT Reports
TG's Enhanced EFT Reporting website is undergoing improvements that will make it an even more useful tool for TG's business partners by offering expanded reporting functions.

TG awards more than $1.8 million in grants to advance college opportunity, student retention, research
TG's Public Benefit Grant Program has awarded more than $1.8 million to 20 institutions and non-profit organizations to help them fund local, regional, and statewide efforts to increase opportunities and access to higher education and improve student success in preparing for and earning a college degree.

Reporting Back: Celebrating 25 Years of Service and Care
This year, TG celebrates the silver anniversary of its first student loan guarantee.

Question of the week
Can a school limit its process flow to receive all of its Stafford and PLUS loan disbursements by electronic funds transfer (EFT) or master check (i.e., not receive any disbursements by paper check)?

This, That, and the Other...

The number of boys who said they didn't like school rose 71 percent between 1980 and 2001, according to a University of Michigan study and reported in a January 30 Newsweek article. And, nowhere is the shift more evident than on college campuses.

Thirty years ago men represented 58 percent of the undergraduate student body. Now they're a minority at 44 percent. Thirty years ago it was girls, not boys, who were lagging. The 1972 federal law Title IX forced schools to provide equal opportunities for girls in the classroom and on the playing field.

Over the next two decades, billions of dollars were funneled into finding new ways to help girls achieve. By the mid-1990s, girls had reduced the gap in math and more girls than boys were taking high-school-level biology and chemistry. It was this "misguided feminism" that some scholars are saying has been hurting boys. To read the article, visit http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
id/11012356/site/newsweek/.