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For 30 years, TG has helped schools, students, and families navigate the college financial aid process. As the federal student loan industry changes, TG is committed in providing the valuable services and tools that hundreds of schools and millions of students and families have come to know.
The fifth edition of the English-Spanish Glossary of Student Financial Aid and Postsecondary Education is now available.
TG has awarded $5.6 million in competitive grants to 50 institutions and nonprofit organizations to advance access to college, student retention, and educational research. This is the sixth consecutive year TG has awarded the competitive grants through its Public Benefit Grant Program, the company's philanthropic initiative.
TG has designated an additional $5 million to its Charley Wootan Grant Program to assist more students in paying for higher education during the 2010-2011 academic year.
TG, the designated student loan guarantor for the state of Texas and one of the nation's largest guarantors, has published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Annual Report.
TG has named Sharon Cabeen as director of financial literacy operations. Cabeen comes to TG with more than 25 years of management and program development experience. She will oversee TG's financial literacy services and the development of a recognized, best-in-class financial literacy program.
TG has published the February 2010 edition of the State of Student Aid and Higher Education in Texas, which provides key facts on college access and success for Texas families and students. The annual publication offers a picture of Texas' higher education landscape, including state versus national educational attainment levels, college costs, financial aid programs, and student indebtedness.
TG, in collaboration with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), will host the fifth annual College Access and Affordability telethons, starting February 9. The telethons are designed to encourage Texans to attend college, and to offer viewers information and resources on the financial aid process.
TG, one the nation's largest federal student loan guarantors, has announced the dates and locations for its 2010 Financial Literacy Symposia. Since 2008, TG has hosted the free symposia, allowing financial aid officers and college officials to share insight, and strategize on improving students' money management skills.
TG has launched several enhancements to its Web-based default management tool, the Integrated Default Assistant (IDA). IDA's interactive application is used to help schools, lenders, and servicers manage default rates for their TG-guaranteed loans.
TG is rolling out enhanced features for its online survey-creation tool, List Assist, which helps college financial aid officers simplify the process of creating a preferred lender list.
A study released by a White House task force pinpoints the challenges, specifically income and information barriers, to students seeking a college education and their families. The study found that students from lower-income backgrounds often lack the necessary resources for understanding that a higher education is possible, and thus, fewer of them enroll in college. The findings reflect many of the challenges Texans face, in that more than 80 percent of Texas students receive some type of need-based aid to pay for college.
TG, the designated student loan guarantor for Texas, recently awarded $1 million in college grant money to 299 Texas college students. The money was allocated as part of the corporation's Charley Wootan Grant Program, which provides grants ranging from $1,000 up to $4,245 to qualified undergraduate students.
TG has launched an enhanced version of its corporate Web site, TG Online, designed to provide financial aid information in a more efficient, user-friendly way. The redesigned TG Online focuses on addressing today's most pressing questions related to federal student loans and money management.
TG, the designated student loan guarantor for Texas, is working to help borrowers understand the new Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan. TG performed a preliminary analysis that indicates more than 60,000 Texas borrowers could potentially qualify for IBR, which is set to begin July 1, 2009.
TG has awarded more than $6.2 million in competitive grants to 55 institutions and nonprofit organizations to advance access to college, student retention, and educational research. This is the fifth consecutive year that TG awarded the competitive grants through its Public Benefit Grant Program, the company's philanthropic initiative.
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. The interactive format features a dynamic search tool that allows users to set parameters for producing a list of schools meeting their specific criteria. A list of all lenders doing loan volume at a particular institution is also available.
The complexities of today's economic environment have made it necessary for students to acquire the fundamental skills required to make smarter choices when it comes to their financial decisions. So great is the need to build these skills that April has been designated Financial Literacy Month. It's the reason that TG's Positive+Balance Community has increasingly become a popular first-step in devising programs designed to help financial aid administrators and educators explain financial literacy to their students.
Governor Rick Perry has re-appointed Dora Anne Verde, and appointed two new members, Dr. Richard M. Rhodes and Mr. Welcome W. Wilson, Jr., to serve on TG's Board of Directors. Each of the appointees' terms is set to expire on January 31, 2015.
Financial aid administrators, students, and student loan providers now have available a more flexible, open system with the launch of TG's enhanced AdvanTG Web, a comprehensive application and loan management tool, and TG's Loans By Web, a robust and interactive Web-based borrower loan application system.
TG has allocated $2 million to the Charley Wootan Grant Program. Of these funds, $1 million will be distributed to Texas students, and another $1 million will be distributed to students in other states, the District of Columbia, or U.S. territories to help pay for their college education. Applications for grant consideration will be available beginning April 2, 2009.
Last year, results from a survey by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy reported secondary and postsecondary students still struggle with understanding fundamental financial skills, and more programs should be offered to help them. To address this growing issue, TG has launched an online forum, the Positive+Balance Community (PBC), for financial aid professionals and educators seeking reliable financial literacy solutions and program support.
TG announced today that it will continue to pay the one percent federal default fee on behalf of its borrowers for federal Stafford and PLUS loans for the 2009-2010 award year.
Due to initial first-year success, TG has announced that its scholarly periodical, the "Enrollment Management Journal: Student Access, Finance, and Success in Higher Education," has become a quarterly publication.
TG's Public Benefit Grant Program has begun accepting proposals from educational and nonprofit organizations seeking funds for projects focused on improving student access to, and participation in, higher education.
A TG co-sponsored report just released by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Excelencia in Education contends that a large percentage of students do not use student loans to help pay for their college expenses, even if there is a financial need to do so.
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TG has launched a new survey-creation tool, List Assist, designed to help financial aid officers develop a recommended lender list by adding objectivity to their lender selection process.
Ben Loya has joined TG as a Regional Account Executive for New York and the Northeast region. Loya, who will be based in New York City, has more than 18 years experience in the student loan industry.
South Texas College's Dual Enrollment Medical Science Academy (DEMSA) received a grant in the amount of $170,652 from the TG Public Benefit Grant Program, a Texas-based philanthropic initiative focused on student access and success in college.
The fourth edition of the English-Spanish glossary of terms relating to access to higher education is now available in portable document format (PDF) and as a searchable online database.
Donna G. Smith, with 18 years experience in the student financial aid arena, has been named director of TG's Center for Financial Aid Policy in Community Colleges.
TG has awarded more than $5.6 million in competitive grants to 49 institutions and nonprofit organizations to advance access to college, student retention, and educational research.
Two experts on developing successful money management programs on college campuses will lead TG's 2008 Financial Literacy Counseling Symposium on Friday, June 27.
Two new members have been appointed by Governor Rick Perry to fill unexpired terms on TG.s board of directors.
The TG Charley Wootan Grant Program will award $2 million in direct grants during the 2008-09 academic year - $1 million to Texas students and another $1 million to residents of any other state, the District of Columbia, or U.S. territory.
TG has released the first issue of a new scholarly publication developed in collaboration with the University of Nebraska - Lincoln that is a refereed journal on enrollment management.
TG has issued the latest edition of its School Fact Sheets, a useful publication about Texas institutions of higher learning and lenders that provide loans to their students.
TG has issued a new publication that studies the reasons for success and failure of students on campus, and makes recommendations on how to encourage student retention and persistence.
Dena Dobson has joined TG as a regional account executive for Illinois.
Increases in college costs and a greater reliance on student loans are compelling institutions of higher learning to adopt new approaches in preventing student loan delinquency and default.
Elizabeth Holland Stanley has been named TG's new director of student persistence and success. She has 14 years of experience in college enrollment and higher education services.
TG has scheduled its 2008 Lender Workshop, an annual forum for lenders and loan servicers to learn about regulatory changes and other issues affecting higher education and the student financial aid industry.
TG is again making available The FAFSA Made Easy, a video program to help students and families complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), to schools and community organizations.
The digital era of instant messaging and other technology is leading college access professionals to adapt to new tactics to improve communications with first-generation college students and their families.
Paulette Manarchuck has joined TG as a regional account executive in Florida.
As borrowing for college continues to increase rapidly, the challenge of helping students from defaulting on loans becomes tougher. This year, about $85 billion in federal student loans are being assumed by college students, a 43 percent increase from only five years ago.
Amy Kasper has joined TG as a regional account executive in California.
Carmen Dominguez has joined TG as a relationship management consultant for corporate school accounts, a new position with the federal student loan guarantor.
TG's board of directors today voted to continue to subsidize the 1 percent federal default fee for federal Stafford and PLUS loans for student and parent borrowers for the 2008-2009 award year.
Sylvia J. Espelage has joined TG as a regional account executive for California.
Kevin Struckhoff, who has spent his entire career in the student loan industry, has joined TG as assistant vice president of relationship management and consulting.
Jessica V. Solcich has been named TG's regional account executive for the Texas Gulf Coast region.
TG has awarded more than $5.2 million in grants to 42 institutions and non-profit organizations to advance access to college, student retention and educational research. This is the third consecutive year that TG will award the competitive grants through its Public Benefit Grant Program, the company's philanthropic initiative.
A national consortium of organizations involved in student financial aid and other educational services has released the third edition of an English-Spanish glossary of terms relating to access to higher education, a new version that now also includes a searchable online database.
Six recent Texas high school graduates have been selected to each receive the $500 Milton G. Wright Scholarship, awarded each year in honor of TG's former president and CEO.
The Educational Policy Institute, a non-profit research center devoted to the study of educational opportunity, and TG have jointly released a new web-based tool to provide strategies for improving student success for postsecondary institutions.
Tamara N. Carter has been named TG's regional account executive for the Northeast, a new position for one of the nation's largest student loan guarantors.
TG has introduced a new web-based system to assist college financial aid offices better manage and maintain their student employment process.
TG has launched Versatile Routing, a TG proprietary service that simplifies and enhances guarantee processing, routing, and reporting for lenders that use a single lender identification number (LID) with multiple servicers to obtain TG loan guarantees.
Three new members have joined TG's Board of Directors following unanimous confirmation by the Texas State Senate.
TG has issued its latest edition of TG's School Fact Sheets, an all-inclusive publication about Texas educational institutions of higher learning.
A Texas A&M University study, sponsored through a TG grant, shows that high school students need more information about applying to and paying for college to overcome financial barriers that keep many of them from college enrollment.
The American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and TG are jointly sponsoring a Latino Student Success Institute on March 9, 2007 in Costa Mesa, CA, to address the lagging pace of Hispanics' participation in college programs.
TG has named John Zanot, a career high-tech marketing executive, as the company's new director of product management.
Fifteen student financial aid administrators from three states participated in a week-long leadership symposium in which TG provided training on leadership skills within the context of a campus financial aid office.
Deanne Varner has been named TG's General Counsel/Chief Ethics Officer and Senior Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Affairs.
An estimated 47,000 bachelor's degrees may be lost each year in Texas due to financial barriers students face, according to a new TG report prepared for the 80th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature that convened this week.
TG today announced that it will continue to subsidize the 1 percent federal default fee for federal Stafford and PLUS loans on behalf of student and parent borrowers for the
2007-08 award year (loans guaranteed through June 30, 2008).
The Council for the Management of Educational Finance, in partnership with TG, has recently completed work on several resources to help schools and students in the area of student loan default prevention and debt management.
For each of the past three years, the Commitment to Student Success Award has recognized extraordinary performance in the areas of debt management and default prevention. This year, The University of Texas at Austin (UT) received the award for its Pathways to Progress Program.
Kathy Campbell has joined TG as a regional account executive for California. Campbell has worked for more than 15 years in higher education finance. Throughout her career, she has served in many roles, including academic service representative for Sallie Mae and executive director for regional sales for Chase Bank. Before coming to TG, she held a regional director position with National Student Loan Program.
TG and other student loan guarantors across the country have developed a centralized source of information to help students and families plan for college.
As a part of TG's Hispanic Higher Education Initiative, TG has established new partnerships with two national Latino-based organizations with the goal of working collaboratively to increase postsecondary education access and success among Hispanics.
The TG board of directors has elected a new slate of executive officers to serve for the 2007 fiscal year.
Tommy Brooks, executive vice president and chief financial officer for Unity National Bank, has been named chairman of the board of directors for TG.
Dora Ann Verde, partner with the public accounting firm of Garza/Gonzalez & Associates in San Antonio, has been named vice chair of the board of directors for TG.
Yvonne Batts, president and owner of Batts Communications Inc., in Abilene, Texas, has been named secretary of the board of directors for TG.
For the second consecutive year, TG has awarded grants to advance college access, student retention, and educational research. TG's Public Benefit Grant Program, a philanthropic initiative of TG, will award more than $3.8 million in competitive grants to 28 institutions and non-profit organizations.
The Spanish-language version of Adventures In Education (AIE) at www.AIE.org now features a new design and additional information. Both the English and Spanish versions of the site, provided as a public service by TG, offer information and resources to help students and families prepare and pay for college and explore career options.
Tamy Garofano has joined TG as a regional account executive in the mid-Atlantic region. Garofano will serve TG's school customers in South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Delaware.
The U.S. Department of Education released a regulations package on August 9, 2006, for the federal student aid programs, including the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). Most of the regulations are derived from the statutory changes due to the Higher Education Reconciliation Act of 2005. To help financial aid professionals understand how these rules coordinate with the legislation on which they are based, TG is providing a free telephone conference titled "A look at the new interim final rules."
Adventures In Education at www.AIE.org now sports a new design, additional information, and interactive features.
A consortium of organizations from throughout the nation has released the second edition of an English-Spanish glossary of standard terms relating to access to higher education.
Representatives from all sectors of education met on the campus of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln this week to focus on the future of higher education and how to anticipate and meet students' needs through 2020 and beyond.
TG announced today that an employee of Hummingbird, a company TG engaged to prepare a document management system, has lost a piece of equipment which contains the names and Social Security numbers of approximately 10 percent of TG's borrowers.
TG's Public Benefit Grant Program, a philanthropic initiative of TG, has set aside $500,000 to help students whose education was interrupted by Hurricanes Katrina and/or Rita.
TG announced today that it will subsidize the one-percent federal default fee for federal Stafford and PLUS loans on behalf of student and parent borrowers for the 2006-2007 Award Year (loans guaranteed through June 30, 2007).
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