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FINDING 2025-001 (Auditor Assigned Reference Number) Finding Subject: TRIO - Eligibility Contact Persons Responsible for Corrective Action: John Gipson, Lake County Chancellor Contact Phone Number and Email Address: 812-297-3252 and jgipson33@ivytech.edu Views of Responsible Officials: We concur wit...
FINDING 2025-001 (Auditor Assigned Reference Number) Finding Subject: TRIO - Eligibility Contact Persons Responsible for Corrective Action: John Gipson, Lake County Chancellor Contact Phone Number and Email Address: 812-297-3252 and jgipson33@ivytech.edu Views of Responsible Officials: We concur with the findings. Description of Corrective Action Plan: The College will ensure that each affected campus develops and implements a plan that incorporates internal controls to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with applicable requirements. Campus Project Directors will be responsible for maintaining complete and accurate documentation, including required dual signatures. Anticipated Completion Date: June 30, 2026
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: The University should review the procedures surrounding the verification process to ensure all necessary support and documentation is obtained and retained in the student files. E...
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: The University should review the procedures surrounding the verification process to ensure all necessary support and documentation is obtained and retained in the student files. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: When students are selected for verification; requirements are auto populated to RRAAREQ and prevent disbursement of federal aid. Once all requirements have been received, reviewed, and documented, the requirements are satisfied and aid is disbursed. For this specific account - a SEPID requirement was placed 7/30/24 - the student completed the form and staff satisfied the requirement on 01/21/25 - the aid was paid on 1/22/25. Subsequent verification requirements were received on new ISIR records on 2/25/25 and additional requirements were added to the student record. The later verification requirements were not completed because all aid was already disbursed prior to the new ISIR records. Going forward, staff will ensure the SIS is configured correctly to prevent disbursement of funds with outstanding verification requirements and pull back any disbursements previously made until verification is completed Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Elizabeth Stevens, Director, Student Financial Services, University of New Hampshire Planned completion date for corrective action plan: July 1, 2026
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: We recommend the University review its SAP policies to ensure they met the minimum requirements and that they are fully implemented. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding...
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: We recommend the University review its SAP policies to ensure they met the minimum requirements and that they are fully implemented. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: Historically the Graduate School was responsible for reviewing SAP and notifying Student Financial Services (SFS) if students needed to be warned or suspended. Going forward, SFS will begin reviewing graduate students for SAP to ensure accurate and timely notifications are in place. Additionally, SFS is reviewing the current logic to ensure GPA is accurately reviewed in the baseline SAP process. Student Financial Services 11 Garrison Avenue - Stoke Hall Durham, NH 03824 Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Elizabeth Stevens, Director, Student Financial Services, University of New Hampshire Planned completion date for corrective action plan: July 1, 2026
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: We recommend the college review its reporting procedures to ensure that awarding is within the need calculation. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagr...
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: We recommend the college review its reporting procedures to ensure that awarding is within the need calculation. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: Keene State College KSC has reviewed student in question and has identified the scholarship award that caused the student information system to award a higher subsidized loan to the student. We have reviewed the packaging policy and made updates so the scholarship in question will now allow the correct sub/unsub loan to be awarded based on the student’s financial need eligibility. University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire’s accounts affected were updated 11/25/2025 to reflect the full subsidized loan amount. Error on loan swap was due to a new employee in training with limited resources. Since this occurred, the office policy and procedure manual and staff documentation have been updated to ensure this is not repeated in future years. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Cathy Mullins, Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships, Keene State College Elizabeth Stevens, Director, Student Financial Services, University of New Hampshire Planned completion date for corrective action plan: March 10, 2026
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: We recommend the University review its reporting procedures to ensure that students’ statuses are timely reported to NSLDS as required by regulations. Explanation of disagreement ...
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: We recommend the University review its reporting procedures to ensure that students’ statuses are timely reported to NSLDS as required by regulations. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: Plymouth State University: The registrar’s office will be examining how these situations came about. Given that our records pulled from Banner are correct and were sent to NSC as per reporting compliance requirements, we believe that there are issues with the NSC side of the current reporting process. We will connect with the NSC audit team with the expectation that there will be a noticeable fix – one that can be used in the future to preempt findings. Additionally, teams at USNH will explore two items: 1) Review of how the NSC template is set up and working in PSU-Banner, and provide assistance in correcting any portions of the process that are out of line. 2) Investigate downloading PSU data from NSLDS to compare with the data pulled from PSU-Banner so potential mismatches on statuses can be caught in real time. Keene State College: KSC Registrar, which is responsible for reporting enrollment statuses to NSLDS, confirmed with NSC the record was sent in a time manner to NSC. The records for unknown reasons were not processed by NSC until a later date. The Registrar has been made aware this is a repeat finding and additional training will be provided, along with a review of the procedures. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Tonya LaBrosse, Registrar, Plymouth State College Cathy Mullins, Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships, Keene State College Planned completion date for corrective action plan: July 1, 2026
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: We recommend that the College put a process in place to refund student credit balances that arose from federal funds within 14 days. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding...
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing Numbers 84.007, 84.033, 84.038, 84.063, 84.268 Recommendation: We recommend that the College put a process in place to refund student credit balances that arose from federal funds within 14 days. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: This repeat finding was partially due to the implementation of Workday, the adjustments of aid to individual student records, and a shortage of staff. We have hired an additional staff member and trained additional staff to help with federal refunds during the demanding time of the term. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Cathy Mullins, Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships. Keene State College Planned completion date for corrective action plan: July 1, 2026
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2025-001 AL# 93.592 - Family Violence Prevention and Services/Discretionary Recommendation: We recommend that the Organization implement the necessary internal controls to ensure that Federal Financial Reporting is performed, and review of reports submitt...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2025-001 AL# 93.592 - Family Violence Prevention and Services/Discretionary Recommendation: We recommend that the Organization implement the necessary internal controls to ensure that Federal Financial Reporting is performed, and review of reports submitted is documented. Additionally, as there have been recent revisions to the Uniform Grant Guidance (2 CFR 200) that now require documented internal controls over compliance, we also recommend that a specific policy be established for Federal Financial Reporting to give clear directives of how Federal Financial Reporting will be performed, documented, and retained ensuring there is current documentation of the internal controls over compliance. Explanation of disagreement with audit findings: there is no disagreement with the audit findings. Action Plan: Bradley Angle will create and adhere to a policy for performing, documenting, and reviewing all Federal Financial Reports prior to submission, and retain these records in accordance with the Uniform Grant Guidance. Name(s) of the contact people responsible for correction action: Margot Martin, CEO & Karley Smith, Administrative Services Manager & Tiffany Thomas-Guice, Programs and Services Director Plan completion date for corrective action plan: May 1, 2026
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 2025-002 AL# 14.267 – Continuum of Care Program Recommendation: We recommend that the Organization continue with the internal controls established later in the year and ensure that Rent Reasonableness testing is documented including the file review. A...
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 2025-002 AL# 14.267 – Continuum of Care Program Recommendation: We recommend that the Organization continue with the internal controls established later in the year and ensure that Rent Reasonableness testing is documented including the file review. Additionally, as there have been recent revisions to the Uniform Grant Guidance (2 CFR 200) that now require documented internal controls over compliance, we also recommend that a specific policy be established for Rent Reasonableness to give clear directives of how the Organization determines rent reasonableness, how it is documented, and retained, ensuring there is current documentation of the internal controls over compliance. Explanation of disagreement with audit findings: there is no disagreement with the audit findings. Action taken in response to finding: Bradley Angle will continue with our rent reasonableness review and approval process for each of our participants when they are searching for their next home. Action Plan: Codify the review and approval process for documentation of rent reasonableness and share with all staff interacting with participants working to secure an apartment. Name(s) of the contact people responsible for correction action: Margot Martin, CEO & Liliana McDonald, Senior Housing Program Manager & Tiffany Thomas-Guice, Programs and Services Director Plan completion date for corrective action plan: May 15, 2026
National Student Loan Database System (NSLDS) Enrollment Reporting Recommendation: We recommend the College reevaluate their procedures and review policies surrounding reporting status changes to NSLDS to ensure timely and accurate reporting. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is ...
National Student Loan Database System (NSLDS) Enrollment Reporting Recommendation: We recommend the College reevaluate their procedures and review policies surrounding reporting status changes to NSLDS to ensure timely and accurate reporting. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the auditfinding. Action taken in response to finding: The Registrar will re-evaluate policies, procedures and training materials to ensure timely and accurate reporting. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Michele Peterson Planned completion date for corrective action plan: 03/31/26 If
View of Responsible officials and corrective actions: To make sure that all pertinent documents & information related to 2024-25 financial statements are delivered to our auditor with sufficient time for them to complete said year’s single audit and submit it to the corresponding agency.
View of Responsible officials and corrective actions: To make sure that all pertinent documents & information related to 2024-25 financial statements are delivered to our auditor with sufficient time for them to complete said year’s single audit and submit it to the corresponding agency.
Finding #2025-003 - Rent Reasonableness Criteria: HUD requires that recipients ensure that rent is reasonable compared to similar unassisted units and maintain documentation supporting the determination; rent paid with CoC leasing funds·may not exceed Fair Market Rent (FMR); and rent reasonableness ...
Finding #2025-003 - Rent Reasonableness Criteria: HUD requires that recipients ensure that rent is reasonable compared to similar unassisted units and maintain documentation supporting the determination; rent paid with CoC leasing funds·may not exceed Fair Market Rent (FMR); and rent reasonableness determinations must be completed before providing assistance. Condition: During testing of rent reasonableness controls and documentation, the following exceptions were identified: • 4 of 4 rent reasonableness determinations lacked evidence of an independent review and approval. • There were 8 instances (2 units x 4 months) where rents exceeded HUD FMR limits. • 3 of 20 rent reasonableness determinations were not completed prior to the lease start date. Questioned Costs: $392. Cause: The Organization did not have sufficiently defined or consistently followed procedures for documenting independent review of rent reasonableness determinations, verifying rents against applicable FMR limits before authorizing payments, and ensuring determinations were complete prior to lease start dates. Effect: Units are approved and paid at non-compliant rent levels, federal funds are used for rents above allowable limits, and documentation does not meet HUD standards, potentially leading to questioned costs, required repayment, and findings in future monitoring or audits. Recommendation: We recommend that management establish a mandatory review and approval step for all rent reasonableness forms, require staff to verify current FMR limits before approving leasing amounts, and require rent reasonableness completion before any lease start date or payment authorization. Response: HALO's management concurs with this finding. HALO management will implement procedures to ensure compliance with rent reasonableness and FMR limits and train staff on those procedures. HALO will replace the current Rent Reasonableness form with the one on the HUD Exchange. Contact Person: Yvonne MacDonald Hames Anticipated Completion: June 30, 2026
Finding #2025-002 - Wage Allocations Criteria: Wages should be allocated to federal and state programs on the basis of time spent in each program. Condition: 1 out of 40 payroll transactions reviewed had differences between the wages that were charged to the grant and the wages that should have been...
Finding #2025-002 - Wage Allocations Criteria: Wages should be allocated to federal and state programs on the basis of time spent in each program. Condition: 1 out of 40 payroll transactions reviewed had differences between the wages that were charged to the grant and the wages that should have been charged to the grant based on the number of hours worked. Questioned Costs: $1,540. Cause: Payroll software coded manager time as admin time instead of the specific grant funding code. Effect: Wages could be charged to the wrong federal awards and not detected and corrected. Recommendation: We recommend that management review payroll software inputs and outputs for accuracy prior to completing grant claims. Response: HALO's management concurs with this finding. HALO's processes will include a review of payroll software inputs and outputs to ensure hours and wages are accurately allocated. Contact Person: Yvonne MacDonald Hames Anticipated Completion: June 30, 2026
SIGNIFICANT DEFICIENCY IN INTERNAL CONTROL OVER COMPLIANCE – U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, PASSED THROUGH MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CHILD NUTRITION CLUSTER (ALN 10.553, 10.555, AND 10.556) 2025-003 Internal Control Over Compliance With Federal Suspension and Debarment Requirements Finding...
SIGNIFICANT DEFICIENCY IN INTERNAL CONTROL OVER COMPLIANCE – U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, PASSED THROUGH MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CHILD NUTRITION CLUSTER (ALN 10.553, 10.555, AND 10.556) 2025-003 Internal Control Over Compliance With Federal Suspension and Debarment Requirements Finding Summary 2 CFR § 180 and 2 CFR § 200.318-327 requires the District to establish and maintain effective internal control over compliance with requirements applicable to federal program expenditures, including suspension and debarment requirements applicable to the child nutrition cluster federal programs. During our audit, we noted the District did not have sufficient controls in place within its child nutrition cluster federal programs to ensure compliance with federal requirements related to assuring that the District was not contracting for goods or services with parties that are suspended or debarred, or whose principals are suspended or debarred from participating in contracts involving the expenditures of federal program funds. Corrective Action Plan Actions Planned – The District will review its policies and procedures relating to suspension and debarment for its federal programs to ensure compliance with the Uniform Guidance in the future, including maintaining appropriate documentation. Official Responsible – Dawn Duevel, Business Services Director. Planned Completion Date – June 30, 2026. Disagreement With or Explanation of Finding – The District agrees with this finding. Plan to Monitor – Dawn Duevel, Business Services Director, will assure appropriate internal controls and procedures are in place to ensure compliance with suspension and debarment requirements.
Recommendation: We recommend the Department implements procedures to ensure compliance with federal period of performance regulations. Views of responsible officials: The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation agrees with the findings and, as such, will implement regular reviews of federal expenditur...
Recommendation: We recommend the Department implements procedures to ensure compliance with federal period of performance regulations. Views of responsible officials: The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation agrees with the findings and, as such, will implement regular reviews of federal expenditures and period of performance. The DVR General ledger team will meet quarterly with the Chief Financial Officer and review all federal expenditures to be recorded timely and accurately. DVR will also continue to meet with program field staff to ensure obligations are within the appropriate period. Position: CFO Timeline: 06/30/2025
Recommendation: We recommend the Department implement effective processes and procedures to ensure expenditures are reimbursed from the correct grant Views of responsible officials: Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what em...
Recommendation: We recommend the Department implement effective processes and procedures to ensure expenditures are reimbursed from the correct grant Views of responsible officials: Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation agrees with the findings and, as such, will implement regular reviews of federal expenditures and period of performance. The DVR General ledger team will meet quarterly with the Chief Financial Officer and review all federal expenditures to be recorded timely and accurately. DVR will also continue to meet with program field staff to ensure obligations are within the appropriate period. Position: CFO Timeline: 06/30/2025
Recommendation: We recommend that the Department assist the Programs by providing training to employees, including supervisory-level employees, to ensure adherence with Department or Program policy. Views of responsible officials: ALN 84.367 Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s pla...
Recommendation: We recommend that the Department assist the Programs by providing training to employees, including supervisory-level employees, to ensure adherence with Department or Program policy. Views of responsible officials: ALN 84.367 Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. ALN 84.424A/F Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. ALN 84.424D Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. ALN 84.365 Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation agrees with the findings and, as such, will implement regular reviews of federal expenditures and period of performance. The DVR General ledger team will meet quarterly with the Chief Financial Officer and review all federal expenditures to be recorded timely and accurately. DVR will also continue to meet with program field staff to ensure obligations are within the appropriate period. Position: CFO Timeline: 06/30/2025
Recommendation: We recommend the Department implement effective processes and procedures to ensure the information reported aligns with the underlying support Views of responsible officials: ALN 21.029 Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and de...
Recommendation: We recommend the Department implement effective processes and procedures to ensure the information reported aligns with the underlying support Views of responsible officials: ALN 21.029 Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation agrees with the findings and, as such, will implement regular reviews of federal expenditures and period of performance. The DVR General ledger team will meet quarterly with the Chief Financial Officer and review all federal expenditures to be recorded timely and accurately. DVR will also continue to meet with program field staff to ensure obligations are within the appropriate period. Position: CFO Timeline: 06/30/2025
Recommendation: We recommend the Department implement effective processes and procedures to ensure reported information is accurate and aligns with underlying data Views of responsible officials: Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designat...
Recommendation: We recommend the Department implement effective processes and procedures to ensure reported information is accurate and aligns with underlying data Views of responsible officials: Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation agrees with the findings and, as such, will implement regular reviews of federal expenditures and period of performance. The DVR General ledger team will meet quarterly with the Chief Financial Officer and review all federal expenditures to be recorded timely and accurately. DVR will also continue to meet with program field staff to ensure obligations are within the appropriate period. Position: CFO Timeline: 06/30/2025
Recommendation: We recommend the Department review the instructions for completion of the FFATA reports with training provided to the program staff who are preparing and reviewing the FFATA reports to ensure submitted reports are timely and complete. We recommend the Department implement effective p...
Recommendation: We recommend the Department review the instructions for completion of the FFATA reports with training provided to the program staff who are preparing and reviewing the FFATA reports to ensure submitted reports are timely and complete. We recommend the Department implement effective processes and procedures to maintain the submitted reports and the documentation used to prepare the reports in the files of the Department. Views of responsible officials: ALN 10.555: Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. ALN 84.425U The SSFS staff is currently working on adding all pertinent subawards. However, it has proven difficult to get access to our staff via the FFATA helpdesk. We are diligently trying to solve such issues as not knowing the previous owner of these grants in the FFATA system in order to transfer this ownership to the current staff. The Director and Deputy Director of the Student, School, and Family Support (SSFS) Bureau are responsible for ensuring the FFATA reporting is completed by March 31, 2025. ALN 21.029 Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. ALN 84.365: Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. ALN 84.367: Open – Views of responsible officials and management’s planned corrective actions, timeline and designation of what employee position are responsible for meeting deadlines in the timeline. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation agrees with the findings and, as such, will implement regular reviews of federal expenditures and period of performance. The DVR General ledger team will meet quarterly with the Chief Financial Officer and review all federal expenditures to be recorded timely and accurately. DVR will also continue to meet with program field staff to ensure obligations are within the appropriate period. Position: CFO Timeline: 06/30/2025
Management has implemented procedures effective 7/1/2025 to ensure that reports are submitted timely and that any new filing deadlines will be documented and met without exception.
Management has implemented procedures effective 7/1/2025 to ensure that reports are submitted timely and that any new filing deadlines will be documented and met without exception.
104 White St Hertford, North Carolina 27944 Corrective Action Plan For the year ended June 30, 2025 Section II – Financial Statement Findings none reported Section III - Federal Award Findings and Questioned Costs Finding 2025-001 Name of Contact Person: Arnesa Holley, Executive Director Corrective ...
104 White St Hertford, North Carolina 27944 Corrective Action Plan For the year ended June 30, 2025 Section II – Financial Statement Findings none reported Section III - Federal Award Findings and Questioned Costs Finding 2025-001 Name of Contact Person: Arnesa Holley, Executive Director Corrective Action: We will implement proper internal control procedures for the Section 8 Project Based Cluster eligibility requirements. Management has established a checklist for applications and will establish checklists for move-ins and move-outs. Proposed Completion Date: Imediately
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing No. Various Recommendation: We recommend the College review its reporting procedures to ensure the students’ statuses are timely reported to NSLDS as required by regulations. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagre...
Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Assistance Listing No. Various Recommendation: We recommend the College review its reporting procedures to ensure the students’ statuses are timely reported to NSLDS as required by regulations. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: Dunwoody’s Registrar’s Office has adjusted our reporting scheduling process to accommodate for additional time to work through our third-party vendor (NSC) customer service if there is a processing error. Our Registrar’s Office is attending all training provided by NSC on enrollment reporting and the Director of Financial Aid is attending NSLDS trainings provided by Federal Student Aid and NASFAA. In addition, we have scheduled monthly regular meetings between the Registrar and the Director of Financial Aid to collaborate and proactively address any concerns with NSLDS reporting in advance of deadlines. Name of the contact person responsible for corrective action: Jaz Hofbauer, Registrar Planned completion date for corrective action plan: This process is in place for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Current Year Observations and Recommendations Observation: While the District did ultimately meet the necessary requirements for the eligibility standards using budgeted amounts, the District’s maintenance of effort calculator for eligibility was submitted to NYS Education Department (NYSED) with ce...
Current Year Observations and Recommendations Observation: While the District did ultimately meet the necessary requirements for the eligibility standards using budgeted amounts, the District’s maintenance of effort calculator for eligibility was submitted to NYS Education Department (NYSED) with certain inaccurate information. Recommendation: We recommend the District develop a system to review the maintenance of effort calculator with all supporting documentation before submitting it to NYSED in order to ensure that the information submitted is complete and accurate. District Response: The District will have the MOE reviewed and approved by the Business Administrator and Assistant Superintendent for Business and Operations prior to submission to NYSED to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the information reported. Anticipated Completion Date: June 2027 Persons Responsible for Implementation: Sal Perrotta, Assistant Business Manager, Joseph DiBartolo, Business Administrator, and Richard Snyder, Assistant Superintendent for Business and Operations. Prior Year Observations and Recommendations There were no prior year observations.
2025-003 Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Federal Assistance Listing No. 84.268 – Eligibility Recommendation: We recommend the University review its policies and procedures related to packaging student aid & ensuring any over awards are monitored timely. Explanation of disagreement with audit ...
2025-003 Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Federal Assistance Listing No. 84.268 – Eligibility Recommendation: We recommend the University review its policies and procedures related to packaging student aid & ensuring any over awards are monitored timely. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: To prevent re-occurrence, the Office of Financial Aid has strengthened their internal controls as follows: A system generated over award monitoring report is not reviewed twice weekly, multiple staff members have been trained on the review and reconciliation process to ensure continuity and oversight, and over award monitoring responsibilities are no longer dependent on a single individual. Upon identification of the issue, corrective action was taken immediately to return the excess funds and ensure the student’s aid package was brought into compliance with federal regulations. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Dorothy Fultz, Associate Director of Federal Programs & Quality Control Planned completion date for corrective action plan: March 2026
2025-002 Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Federal Assistance Listing Nos. 84.063, and 84.268 – Enrollment Reporting Recommendation: We recommend the University evaluate its procedures and review policies in overseeing submissions to the NSLDS completed by the third-party servicer. Additionally...
2025-002 Student Financial Assistance Cluster – Federal Assistance Listing Nos. 84.063, and 84.268 – Enrollment Reporting Recommendation: We recommend the University evaluate its procedures and review policies in overseeing submissions to the NSLDS completed by the third-party servicer. Additionally, we recommend the University review its policies and procedures on reporting enrollment information to the NSLDS to ensure that all relevant information is captured and reported timely in accordance with applicable regulations. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: The Registrar’s office has diligently been working to resolve enrollment reporting concerns with internal IT assistance and the Audit Resource Center with the National Student Clearinghouse. In February 2025, a request was sent to the National Student Clearinghouse representative who referred us to the audit resource center regarding students being submitted to the National Student Clearinghouse and not bridging over to NSLDS. We are still working through these issues as some students who were manually submitted on the same day in the National Student Clearinghouse successfully bridged over to NSLDS while others did not. Additionally, we have continued to work with the National Student Clearinghouse, including Mr. Patrick Ciardullo and his team, to work on other enrollment file errors. With our internal IT team, we have also advanced, created and strengthened the enrollment file report process to alleviate any potential issues while pulling the file for submission monthly. This has included integrating a purge process to remove students no longer registered, updating graduation data including expected graduation date, and updating time statuses in batch mode. We have also created and used numerous popsels to assist in aligning the student data with the enrollment file requirements, which has also assisted in double checking that all reported information is accurate. This has significantly cut the number of errors returned from the National Student Clearinghouse by approximately 90%. Due to this, we can review and address any discrepancies in a more timely and efficient manner. The recommendation was to continue with our updated process and manually check a group of students to ensure they bridged over to the NSLDS since there are no uniform or explainable causes outside of technical abnormality. We continue to work on outliers, such as the errors presented during the audit. Documentation was presented and shared during the review process that confirmed the findings are indeed software/technical outliers and ones already being worked on by the Delaware State University and National Student Clearinghouse teams. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: Registrar, Dr. Genita Mangum Planned completion date for corrective action plan: October 2026
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