USA Funds Involved in 2006-2007 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 2006-2007. Listed with their USA Funds titles and NCHELP assignments, they are:

• Brian Allison, director, technology and industry initiatives — co-chair, electronic-standards committee.
• Joni Anderson, senior corporate counsel — legal-affairs committee. 
• Greg Ayers, vice president, policy and compliance — program-operations committee.  
• Lisa Boepple, director, Congressional relations — Fall Leadership Conference planning committee.
• Rick Buckingham, director, compliance and investigations — Common Review Initiative workgroup.
• Julie Ragsdale, corporate counsel — legal-affairs committee. 
• David Boodt, vice president and general counsel — legal-affairs committee. 
• Bruce Bement, supervisor, compliance — discharge-forms workgroup. 
• Brenda Grady, policy adviser — common forms subcommittee; chair, forms-mapping-project workgroup; default aversion-and-claims-standardization workgroup.
• Kathy Leatherbury, policy adviser — program-regulations committee, Taxpayer Relief Act subcommittee, partial discharge of a consolidation loan subcommittee, delinquency-and-claim-standardization workgroup, and the total and permanent disability form-update workgroup. 
• Terry Muilenburg, senior vice president, government and industry relations — board of directors and Fall Leadership Conference planning committee.
• Kim Shifflette, product manager — co-chair of the Origination Standards Advisory Team and member of the electronic-standards committee.
• Kevin Tharp, manager, delinquency and default oversight — debt-management committee.  
• Diane Tiefel, research-and-development analyst — Form 2000 workgroup and common-definitions workgroup.