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Newsletters
- Shoptalk Online — TG's premier industry newsletter.
- Legislative Report — Current higher education and student financial aid information.
Fact Sheets
- School Fact Sheets — Convenient reference sheets to help you learn more about a particular school and its use of student aid programs.
- Lender Fact Sheets — Learn more about the financial institutions with TG-guaranteed loans.
- Legislative Fact Sheets — Useful data regarding schools and borrowers within Texas' state and congressional legislative districts.
Financial Reports
Academic Journals
- Enrollment Management Journal — A refereed, academic journal publishing the latest research on methods to help colleges enroll, retain, and graduate more students.
Research Reports
- State of Student Aid and Higher Education in Texas — A basic overview providing comparisons of state and federal student aid programs.
Higher Education Act
- Opening the Doors to Higher Education: Perspectives on the Higher Education Act 40 Years Later
- The Role of Work and Loans in Paying for an Undergraduate Education
Literature Reviews
- First-Generation College Students: A Literature Review — This publication summarizes various research studies related to first-generation college students and categorizes them according to issues including access, student characteristics, retention, pre-college intervention efforts, and college intervention efforts.
- Retention and Persistence in Postsecondary Education — A summary of relevant information focusing on one basic issue - keeping students in school. The report discusses a number of facts, studies, theories, and recommendations about retention in postsecondary education.
- Student Loan Default Literature Review — This publication summarizes 17 research studies and categorizes them according to distinct variables that may have a relationship to student loan default. Categories include grade point average, attendance factors, exit counseling, income, academic preparedness, level of indebtedness, and others.
Default Studies
- The Characteristics Associated with Student Loan Default at Texas A&M University — A study examining the default behavior of undergraduate borrowers who attended Texas A&M and who entered repayment on TG-guaranteed FFELP loans during federal fiscal years 1997, 1998, and 1999.
- Multivariate Analysis of Student Loan Defaulters at Prairie View A&M University — This study examine the default behavior of 3,325 Prairie View A&M undergraduate student borrowers who entered repayment during 2001-02.
- Multivariate Analysis of Student Loan Defaulters at Texas A&M University — A follow-up to the 2002 analysis of 12,776 Texas A&M borrowers, this study both reinforces some of the findings of the earlier study and highlights some variables (such as borrower age and gender) that were largely dismissed by the original work.
- Multivariate Analysis of Student Loan Defaulters at Texas A&M University — Kingsville — This study examines the default behavior of 5,177 TAMU-K undergraduate student borrowers who entered repayment during 1999-2002.
- Multivariate Analysis of Student Loan Defaulters at the University of South Florida — This study examines the default behavior of 17,036 USF undergraduates who entered repayment during 1999-2002.
- Shoulder to Shoulder: The Progress Made by the Student Financial Aid Community in Preventing Defaults — A follow-up to the 1998 Texas Default Prevention and Debt Management Conference.
- Student Loan Defaults in Texas: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow — An update on the status of the recommendations made at the 1988 Strategic Default Initiative conference, this study clarifies research on Texas student loan defaults.
Other Research Studies
- Breaking New Ground, The Texas Historically Black Colleges and Universities Default Management Consortium — A report detailing best practices to help non-Texas HBCUs decrease their cohort default rates.
- A Clear and Present Danger to Institutional and Student Success — A training guide for integrating default aversion strategies into institutional enrollment management plans. This paper shows how campuses may lower default rates by engaging with students starting before the admissions process and lasting through graduation.
- Community College Faculty at Work — Provides useful insight into the strategies and techniques that community college faculty incorporate to facilitate the academic success of Hispanic students. The primary focus of this paper is on faculty-student engagement in the classroom.
- Crisis Averted or Merely Postponed? — This white paper examines long-term student loan cohort default rates and methods used to resolve defaults and cure delinquencies.
- Economic Returns from Higher Education in Texas — A study on the impact of a postsecondary education on the Texas economy.
- Education on the Installment Plan: The Rise of Student Loan Indebtedness in Texas — Provides the context for understanding the relationship between debt and repayment.
- Effective Practices in Student Success — A comprehensive summary of the EPSS database for higher education professionals who are interested in learning proven practices in higher education. The summary outlines programs and strategies that have shown evidence of a positive impact on specific groups of college students.
- Engaging Faculty and Staff: An Imperative for Fostering Retention, Advising, and Smart Borrowing — Provides useful insights and strategies for institutions to use to increase student retention, persistence and postsecondary success — and to reduce the burdens of student loan defaults.
- Paths to the Baccalaureate: A Study of Transfer and Native Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution — This paper examines the paths followed by Hispanic baccalaureate completers at a nonselective, public university. The purpose of the study is to describe the paths in more detail and to provide insight into the experiences of those who have realized this educational goal.
- Ready, willing, and unable: How financial barriers obstruct bachelor-degree attainment in Texas — A report to the 80th regular session of the Texas Legislature. (Summary Handout)
- A School's Guide to Servicers — Includes several strategies to help schools strengthen their default aversion efforts.
- The Toughest Test: The Student Loan Liquidity Crisis of 2007-08 in Texas — This paper outlines the important factors of the student loan "credit crunch," analyzing the subprime mortgage crisis, how it affected student loans, and the government response to the crisis.
- The Way the Future Was — This paper provides the results a forum on the future of higher education hosted by TG and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The paper identifies institutional practices that lead to student success in postsecondary education and suggests tasks practitioners can undertake to help bring this about.