[Oasfaa] are you using mapping your future for summer classes?

[Evelyn Hightower]

We are encouraging the use of mapping your future for all exit
counseling, but a lot of our students' permanent residences are a long
way from our campus and many request a transcript to take a summer class
near their home. OWU requires them to do an exit if they have a loan,
even if they are planning to come back in the fall.

The problem we are running into is: the guarantor retrieves this info
from MYF automatically (you can tell by the asterisk) when they do it
on-line (which I like because it saves me the trouble of mailing and
notifying the lender), however, for the ones who are doing it only for a
summer class, it is giving the guarantor/lender information that we may
not want them to have at that time. (Before MYF, we always filed the
paper exit, and OK'd their transcript, because most of the time the
student was back in the fall. If, by chance, the student stayed at home
or transferred, then we notified the guarantor/lender of the last date
of attendance and forwarded the info.)

We love the convenience of MYF (especially if they are sitting at home
in North Dakota when they request the transcript) and we don't want to
discourage the use of it. Penny Gandy from OGSLP is getting back to me
so we can talk about it. What about the use of the Question/Comment box?
Could this be used to stop the process until they hear from the school
on an accurate LDA?

Does this affect your school and how are you dealing with it?
Evelyn Hightower
Oklahoma Wesleyan University