Embark understands financial aid. 
Designed in collaboration with financial aid officers, Embark provides you with the tools you need to deliver targeted messages – with personalized content and individualized action items – to your prospective, incoming, and continuing students. Embark’s robust database and communications solutions give you the power to reach your students with timely reminders and relevant information at any point over the course of your financial aid processing cycle. Embark’s flexible scheduling solutions give you the ability to manage your counseling sessions and appeals process with automated communications triggered by actions taken by staff and students.
EMBARK WORKS WITH YOU
We know that your goals and objectives are unique to your institution. All of our system modules, forms, views, and import/export batch files are configured to match your exact specifications. We will work with you to build the specific data exchange mechanisms you need to integrate with other systems from PowerFAIDS® and other financial aid management systems to industry standard or home grown student information systems using your specific requirements and/or standard protocols such as Commonline® and Common Origination Disbursement.
INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS
- Outreach and pro-active information delivery – from renewal reminders to aid award packages
- Automated or ad hoc (pre-scheduled campaigns or individual emails)
- Targeted group (based on any criteria) or individual
- Online delivery (where students live), as well as phone lists or print mailings
- Customized emails (HTML-enhanced, graphics, links to more info and web forms) with tracking for open, bounce, and click thru rates
- Personalized, timely, relevant messaging (data mining and merge fields)
- Documents and data management integrated with student profiles
GIVE STUDENTS ACCESS TO 24 x 7 SELF-SERVICE TOOLS
- Students can submit forms, surveys, or process payments, upload documents, and track status—safely and securely
- Students can sign up for events and schedule individual counseling interviews or appeal sessions
- System generated communications – confirmations, reminders, follow-ups– triggered by student actions and sent automatically
FACILITATE COLLABORATION WITH ADMISSIONS PROCESSES
- Integrated views of student profile information
- Coordinate internal processes with custom fields you define to track eligibility requirements, merit ratings, etc.
- Import, export, and/or online review of Financial Aid and Scholarship Applications and supporting Forms and Documents
- ACG (Academic Competitiveness Grant) eligibility pre-screening
- Granular permissions settings to control access to viewing and/or editing information
DOCUMENTS AND DATA MANAGEMENT
- Systems integration import or export
- Quickly locate, create, or edit a student’s profile record
- Streamline workflow, automate reporting
- Safe and secure documents upload
- PCI compliant payment processing
- Integration with PowerFAIDS® and other Financial Aid processing systems; use your custom requirements and/or industry standard protocols such as Commonline® or Common Origination Disbursement
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For more information about our products and services, please contact us: solutions@embark.com.