USA Funds Involved in 2007-2008 NCHELP Committees, Workgroups

USA Funds^® continues to support student-loan-community initiatives and activities through staff involvement with the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs.

Several USA Funds employees are participating in NCHELP committees and workgroups for 2007-2008. Listed with their USA Funds titles and NCHELP assignments, they are:

• Brian Allison, vice president, technology and industry initiatives — Meteor advisory team and Meteor steering committee.
• Joni Anderson, vice president and senior corporate counsel — Legal-affairs committee.
• Bruce Bement, manager, compliance and investigations— Discharge-forms workgroup. 
• David Boodt, senior vice president and general counsel — Legal-affairs committee.
• Rick Buckingham, vice president, compliance and investigations — Program-operations committee, Common Review Initiative workgroup.
• Brenda Grady, policy adviser — Common-forms subcommittee; co-chair, Common Manual-policy committee; default-aversion and claims-standardization workgroup; co-chair, forms-mapping-project workgroup; and reauthorization subcommittee of program regulations.
• Terry Muilenburg, senior vice president, government and industry relations — Board of directors and Fall Leadership Conference-planning committee.
• Julie Ragsdale, senior corporate counsel — Legal-affairs committee. 
• Sheryl Ross-Mahoney, policy adviser — Program-regulations committee, reauthorization subcommittee, school-issues subcommittee, default-aversion and claims-standardization subcommittee, program-operations Stafford Master Promissory Note workgroup, and program-operations PLUS MPN workgroup.
• Kim Shiflette, product manager — Electronic-standards committee, electronic-standards steering committee, electronic-standards originations-standards advisory team, electronic-standards testing and certification advisory team, electronic-standards General Common Account Maintenance advisory team, electronic-standards electronic-exchange advisory team, and the electronic-standards default-aversions and claim-processing advisory team.
• Kevin Tharp, manager, delinquency and default oversight — Debt-management committee.