Trends and Issues

Mapping Your Future™ implements new Web site

Mapping Your Future recently implemented its redesigned Web site with a revised domain name — www.MappingYourFuture.org.

Upon implementation of the site, most incoming links to Mapping Your Future will stop working. Links to the Web site must be updated with the new URL so that visitors can locate the site.

Newsletter help
Because Mapping Your Future is changing Web addresses and redesigning the site at the same time, auto-forwarding won't be available on all content. Mapping Your Future has identified several critical pages that will forward; however, this will only be in effect until May 1, 2009.

For more information about the changes that will occur to the functionality, navigation, and processes — and the changes that users will need to make to use the site — review instructions in this special issue of E-Update, the Mapping Your Future newsletter, at http://sponsors.mapping-your-future.org/sponsors/uploads/myfccc/RedesignEUpdate.htm.

Deleting cookies after redesign
School that use Mapping Your Future's Online Student Loan Counseling must delete cookies before first logging into the FAO Access Area after the site redesign.

Below are instructions on deleting cookies for the more common Internet browsers:

Internet Explorer 7.0

• Select "Tools."
• Select "Internet Options."
• Open the "General" tab.
• In "Browsing history" area, click the "Delete" button.
• In "Delete browsing history" window, click "Delete cookies" button and then click "Yes."
• Click "Close" and then click "OK."

Internet Explorer 6.x

• Select "Tools."
• Select "Internet Options."
• Open the "General" tab.
• Click the "Delete cookies" button.
• Click "OK."

Firefox 2.0

• Select "Tools."
• Select "Options."
• Select "Privacy."
• In Private area, click "Clear Now."
• In "Clear Private Data" window, check "Cookies" and click "Clear Private Data Now."
• Click "OK."

Firefox 1.x

• Select "Tools."
• Select "Options."
• Select "Privacy."
• Open "Cookies" tab and click "Clear Cookies Now."
• Click "OK."

More information
To learn more about Mapping Your Future's varied services for students, families, and schools, visit the Web site at www.MappingYourFuture.org.

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Question of the week

Q.: Is a student who is taking a couple of continuing education classes eligible for an in-school deferment on his or her FFELP loans?

A.: A borrower may qualify for an in-school deferment if he or she is:

• Attending an institution of higher education that is eligible to participate in Title IV financial assistance programs, and
• At least a half-time student whose first loan was made on or after July 1, 1987.

The Common Manual discusses the enrollment requirement in greater detail in Subsection 11.6.A:

"A student's in-school enrollment includes any combination of courses, special studies, research, or work experience that the school considers to constitute a course of study. Full-time or half-time enrollment is determined by the individual school and may vary according to whether the student is a graduate or undergraduate student; whether the enrollment is taking place during the summer or a regular session; and according to the nature of the program. Enrollment in a correspondence school program alone is considered half-time enrollment. The student's full-time or half-time enrollment also may be the result of adding together simultaneous enrollments at more than one school, provided that a single school certifies total enrollment for all of the schools."

A school may or may not consider continuing education classes to constitute a course of study; it is the school's responsibility to determine and certify that the course of study in which the student is enrolled meets the above definition.

Do you have a question?
If you have a question that needs an answer, feel free to Ask TG™. Ask TG is TG's online query tool for borrowers, schools, and lenders. It includes a database of frequently asked questions about financial aid, student loan processing, and TG's products and services. To submit a question to Ask TG, visit tgslc.custhelp.com.

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