USA Funds Update

USA Funds Program Unlocks a Brighter Future for Middle-School Students
USA Funds^® has introduced a redesigned version of USA Funds Unlock the Future^®, a program to promote early awareness of the benefits of higher education among middle-school students and their parents. Read the announcement.

New Online Courses Focus on Web Resources, Disbursement, Privacy, Credit-Card Counseling
Four new online-learning courses from USA Funds can help financial-aid professionals enhance their skills. Learn more.

 USA Funds Supports Program That Funds College-Preparatory Education
USA Funds is helping to ensure that four students receive the financial assistance they need to attend Cathedral High School, a college-preparatory school in Indianapolis. The first student to receive assistance from USA Funds will graduate this spring. Read more.

Tech Talk

Mainframe Changes Add Information to Response Files
USA Funds’ guarantor-servicer, Sallie Mae, is making enhancements to its mainframe loan-processing system effective April 24, 2006. The changes will provide more information in Response Files for schools and lenders. Learn more.

OpenNet Enhancement Allows Borrower ‘Requested Loan Amount’
Effective April 24, OpenNet Web Loan Delivery will permit its school-users to include the borrower “Requested Loan Amount” in the borrower-initiated Stafford-loan online application process. Read more.

Debt-Management Perspectives

 One-Stop Shop for Student Services Pays ‘Phenomenal Dividends’
After attending a USA Funds symposium that focused on student-retention efforts, the president of the Interdenominational Theological Center began work to create a “one-stop shop” for student services on his campus. Learn more.