October 26, 2010 - Edition 577 TG
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Join TG at CCCSFAAA's annual conference in December
If you're attending this year's conference for the California Community College Student Financial Aid Administrator Association, drop in on TG's sessions and learn more about the verification process and office management in a time of tighter budgets.

TG's New Directions supplies your graduates with one more tool for their post-college careers
Before they leave campus, give your December graduates this TG publication, which contains detailed information on federal loan repayment, including repayment plans, deferment, and forbearance.

Learn how you can teach money management using the TG Financial Literacy Program
Comprised of 10 15-minute modules, the TG Financial Literacy Program covers a range of money management topics and uses a variety of teaching strategies. TG instructors can train school staff to lead a session. TG is offering "Train-the-Trainer" sessions via webinar to schools throughout the first quarter of FY 2011.

Three ways TG's Integrated Default Assistant℠ can help schools better manage their cohort default rate
TG's redesigned Integrated Default Assistant℠ (IDA℠) offers a versatile tool for tracking cohort default rates and communicating with borrowers. The product brings together multiple functions to help schools better manage default.

Smart Solutions
Going to college can be a difficult transition for parents as well as students. Adventures In Education provides parents with information on adjusting to the change. Offer your parents — and students — these helpful tips, which include advice on finding psychological support.

News Briefs

In the age of the Kindle®, Nook®, and other digital readers, you might think that hardcopy textbooks would be a thing of the past, or at least on the way out. Not so, according to the figures provided by the National Association of College Stores. Digital textbooks make up a spare 3 percent of sales, though they're projected to increase by another 10 percent within a few years. Why haven't students embraced the online option, which offers a number of advantages, including portability? Because many readers don't yet allow students to do all the things they normally do with hardcopies, such as make margin notes, highlight passages, and flip easily from chapter to chapter. Hardcopy books aren't prone to computer viruses either. Students also find a form of security in a book, in possessing the object itself, according to the New York Times. Learn more about the enduring value that students find in textbooks.