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TG Updates
Stock up on financial aid brochures and collateral for the fall through TG
One way you can give your students quick, comprehensive information about financial aid and potentially lessen your office workload is through easy-to-mail brochures. TG offers a suite of publications on many of the issues important to your students. If you're looking to supplement any materials you provide students on educational loans, consider these well-organized, comprehensive publications.
Tech Report
Product spotlight: Prescreen student job applicants with TG CollegeWorks By Web™
TG CollegeWorks By Web helps schools save time and money. One way it does this is by giving administrators the ability to prescreen applicants through a set of questions posted online with a notice of the job opening. With this feature, a designated administrator or supervisor for the system can add position requirements for filling the position or filter applicants according to experience, knowledge, and ability.
Trends and Issues
Focus on academics: Give your students the keys to succeeding in school
More financial aid administrators are linking strong academic performance to a successful career post-graduation and, ultimately, paying off student loans. TG offers a comprehensive workshop on life success and financial literacy that helps to foster students' academic skills, among other things. The program — POSITIVE+BALANCE™ — is fully customizable and can be integrated with existing campus programs on academic and career development.
Five ways to make your financial aid website a hit with students
Financial aid offices are finding that their websites are an essential hub of information for students, one that can add efficiency to the student loan process and establish a strong customer service relationship with students. If you’re responsible for content on your school’s financial aid Web pages, consider how you can make the site even more of a versatile, effective tool for your customers. You’ll find that with the right combination of features and functions you can anticipate student questions and potentially reduce the administrative work your office handles.
Question of the week
A parent was originally denied a PLUS loan but was later approved after obtaining a credit-worthy endorser. The parent has now requested an additional PLUS loan amount. Does the parent have to apply for the additional PLUS loan amount using another Federal PLUS Loan Application and Master Promissory Note (PLUS MPN) and another Endorser Addendum?
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