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The USA Funds® Fall 2002 Student Loan Workshops will provide financial aid professionals across the nation with the most recent information about issues affecting their role in assisting students.		 USA Funds'® Fall 2002 Student Loan Workshops coming to four Texas sites
Submitted by: Chris Elam and Sandy Holt, USA Funds® Services
 866-497-USAF (866-497-8723), option 2

The USA Funds® Fall 2002 Student Loan Workshops will provide financial-aid professionals across the nation with the most recent information about issues affecting their role in assisting students. Free day-long workshops are scheduled at the following Texas locations:

Houston
Nov. 12
Wyndham Hotel Greenspoint
12400 Greenspoint Drive		 Dallas
Nov. 13
Embassy Suites Dallas Love Field
3880 W. Northwest Highway
San Antonio
Nov. 13
Adams Mark San Antonio Riverwalk
111 Pecan St. East		 Corpus Christi
Nov. 14
Omni Bayfront
707 N. Shoreline Blvd.

Workshop participants will hear the latest about federal education-loan policy and regulations, parent loans, education-loan consolidation, federal verification and tax issues, and USA Funds' new electronic newsletter, Education Access Report. Each session also will offer a debt-management seminar, featuring information about USA Funds' debt-management initiatives - including the new PC-based Default Management System (DMS) software - and the new early-awareness program Unlock the FutureTM.

Workshop registration and continental breakfast begin at 8 a.m., and the workshops are from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Following lunch, the debt-management seminar concludes the day's activities from 1:15-3:15 p.m.

The workshops are presented by USA Funds University, which works on behalf of USA Funds® to offer free seminars, training sessions and conferences throughout the country to help Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) participants improve the financial-aid process.

To learn more, and to register, visit www.usafunds.org/wkshop/fall02detail.html on the USA Funds Web site.