TG Updates

TG names Deanne Varner General Counsel and senior vice president of legal and regulatory affairs
Deanne Varner has been named TG's General Counsel/Chief Ethics Officer and senior vice president of legal and regulatory affairs.

TG hosts well-received 2007 Lender and Servicer Training
TG welcomed 100 lender and servicer customers to its annual training event, held last Thursday, January 25, in Austin, Texas.

Submit customer recognition nominations for 2007 TG Annual Conference
By tradition at the TG Annual Conference, TG recognizes the hard work and success of those working in the higher education industry. Preparations are underway for the upcoming TG Conference to be held April 3 - 5 in Austin, Texas. TG would like to know who you believe should be honored this year for his or her achievements in financial aid.

Results in from Shoptalk Online survey
TG recently surveyed readers of Shoptalk Online on the publication's content and effectiveness. Those who responded rated the newsletter highly. Among other things, they found Shoptalk Online to be informative, well-written, and appropriate for its audience.

Trends and Issues

Sticky situations: complicated parent PLUS loan denials
Shoptalk Online continues its series on difficult policy issues that come up every so often in the Title IV programs. We feature another of these sticky situations — complicated parent PLUS loan denials — in this installment of the series.

Question of the week
Must a school apply the delayed delivery requirement to a student who is a first-time borrower but a second-year student — in this case, the student has already earned 30 credit hours?

This, That, and the Other...

Curious about what dorm rooms of the future may look like? Modular will be key: rooms that can be stacked to create a building; furniture that can be easily switched out to suit need; even room decorations which can be replaced according to the taste of students. These are all components of dorm rooms of tomorrow, at least according to the winning design submitted to a contest held by the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. In an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the winning designers — an architectural firm located in Boston — said that low-cost and a stress on using space economically were two of their guiding principles. The designs of other entrants featured moveable walls to make rooms open or private, as needed.

The source for this week's "This, that, and the other" is located at http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/01/2007012903n.htm.

Note that the Chronicle of Higher Education is a subscription site.