TG Updates

TG updates School Fact Sheets, an interactive tool detailing student loan data on Texas schools and lenders
TG has updated the latest edition of its School Fact Sheets, a useful, online publication about Texas postsecondary institutions and lenders that provide loans to their students.

Reminder: Register for TG's upcoming webinar on R2T4
Registration is open for the next in TG's series of live, Web-based, cost-free training events, which focus on current issues in the financial aid industry, as well as financial aid fundamentals.

TG offers final student success symposia as videoconference
Over the last several months, TG has offered a series of workshops, or Student Success Symposia. These workshops focus on a variety of enrollment factors, including the state of institutions within given sectors. TG is offering the last of these symposia, which considers the needs of 4-year public universities, as a videoconference to allow for more interaction between participants and presenters.

TG and Council help students avoid the "pit of debt"
In keeping with its commitment to helping students and families achieve their educational goals and make informed decisions regarding education finance, TG and the Council for the Management of Educational Finance created a poster which encourages students to practice wise spending habits and borrow conservatively.

TG's upcoming Texas regional trainings help you stay current on industry topics
TG's regional trainings offer a great opportunity for asking the questions about legislative and regulatory developments that matter to you. During a day-long workshop, you'll hear from TG experts about a range of policy and industry issues, such as disbursement practices, default management strategies, and building effective office teams. Over the next few months, TG presenters offer trainings in Laredo and Dallas.

This, That, and the Other...

Texas' Closing the Gaps by 2015 campaign is a statewide initiative adopted in 2000 with clear-cut goals: to increase participation in higher education by some 630,000 students, with goals of 5.7 percent for all minorities. To promote transfers from public community colleges to public 4-year institutions, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board — which administers the initiative — recently held a Transfer Success Conference at various sites around the state. Participants shared techniques for promoting enrollment and retention, including offering scholarships to successful transfer students and better aligning prerequisites to the same program of study, whether at a 2- or 4-year institution.

To learn more about the event, read the complete Inside Higher Ed article at www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/22/transfer.