This Repeat Finding has been acknowledged. Union has taken several steps towards making the required changes to ensure compliance with our enrollment reporting responsibilities. This includes implementing process improvements related to our National Clearing House (NSC) submissions and reviewing our...
This Repeat Finding has been acknowledged. Union has taken several steps towards making the required changes to ensure compliance with our enrollment reporting responsibilities. This includes implementing process improvements related to our National Clearing House (NSC) submissions and reviewing our academic policies related to academic leaves of absence and withdrawals. Timeliness of Enrollment Reporting Rosters: As of January 2024, Union completed the setup and configuration of our enrollment reporting services with NSC as our third-party service provider. The new process is administered by the school Registrar, with back-up responsibilities handled by the Assistant Dean, Director of Financial Aid, and the Vice President of Admissions and Views of Responsible Officials: This Repeat Finding has been acknowledged. Union’s Academic Office is in the late stages of implementing a multi-year action plan to implement the required system, policy, and procedural changes to ensure compliance with all enrollment reporting regulations. As of January 2024, Union completed our migration to the National Clearinghouse (NSC) as our third service provider for enrollment reporting services. We have already experienced a strong positive impact on the timeliness of our enrollment reporting. For example, we have fully addressed the timeliness of our NSLDS Roster response, which is due within 15 days. This year’s testing sample yielded zero (0) errors, demonstrating our ability to successfully address enrollment reporting issues. The steps outlined below will allow us to address the enrollment reporting issue identified in this year’s testing sample. Earlier this academic year, Union revised both our Academic Leave of Absence and Term Withdrawal policies to ensure alignment with our compliance obligations. Due to these changes, Union has already noted a reduction in reporting errors and inconsistencies. The FY25 Single Audit finding is related to the reporting of withdrawal/dismissal actions that took place in summer, a non-required term for students in our programs. Our corrective action will be to: (1) further modify our policies and procedures to specifically address non-required and interim terms; and (2) increase the number of batch enrollment updates to NSC/NSLDS during non-required terms to ensure that all summer withdrawals are communicated within 60 days.