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February 28 deadline for schools in North Carolina to join the Membership Program
By Beth Ziehmer
January 17, 2022
Mapping Your Future's Membership Program will be implemented Tuesday, March 1 for schools in North Carolina.
If your school is located in North Carolina, please share this information with the appropriate staff (such as business office staff that might use Perkins counseling) to ensure that your school is signed up for Membership as soon as possible.
What is the Mapping Your Future Membership Program?
Mapping Your Future developed the Membership Program following legislative changes that have impacted the structure of the financial aid industry. Mapping Your Future's Membership Program provides various institutions and organizations an opportunity to benefit from online services, including Online Counseling and MappingXpress, while supporting Mapping Your Future, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and helping students and families.
The Membership Program provides access to the counseling and customer service that schools have come to depend on from Mapping Your Future, and, in addition, Membership allows your school to benefit from using the 22 different counseling sessions, incorporating the calculators into your website, subscribing to MappingXpress for an additional fee, utilizing future products and services, and helping support Mapping Your Future. All of these services are provided at a cost much lower than it would be to develop the services.
What does the Membership Program mean to my school?
If your school is located in North Carolina, then your school must become a Member for you to continue to use Online Counseling after February 28.
There is a tiered membership fee structure, based on student enrollment. The fee structure is at the bottom of the Membership page located at mappingyourfuture.org/Membership/membershippart.cfm.
Why should my school become a Member?
Benefits of Membership include:
- 22 types of Online Counseling sessions
- School portal for data retrieval, management, and reporting
- Storage of archived records for three years
- ExitExpress and SchoolExpress (automated retrieval)
- Default prevention tools
- Customized counseling (adding some school-specific content, determine questions, regulatory required information)
- Direct Loan entrance and Direct Loan exit counseling presentations
- Educational games
- Printable exit counseling materials
- Servicer information sheet
- 2022-23 verification worksheets
- Federal student loan interest rate chart
- Ability to subscribe to the MappingXpress documentation collection service for an additional low fee
- Customer service
What will happen if my school becomes a Member?
After you complete the Membership form, an invoice will be sent to you by e-mail within a few business days.
In the meantime, you can continue to use as many of the 22 different Online Counseling sessions and other Member Resources, to the maximum benefit of your school and your students. You can integrate the counseling and calculators into your school's website, saving time and development costs. You can subscribe to MappingXpress for an additional fee.
What will change if my school does not become a Member?
Our hope is for all North Carolina schools to become Members and continue to use Online Counseling and the other tools and services on the website. However, we realize that not all schools will be able to become Members. If it is not possible for your school to become a Member by February 28, then you should ensure that all current and archived counseling sessions have been retrieved, as you will not have access to your secure Access Area once your account has been inactivated.
Contact the Mapping Your Future staff at feedback@mappingyourfuture.org or call (800) 374-4072 with any questions about Membership.