Finding 2025-003 Name of Responsible Individual: Bryce Durbin, Director of Institutional Research & Registrar Corrective Action Plan: Management agrees with the finding that one student’s Program Begin Date was incorrectly reported to NSLDS. For this new student, the Program Begin Date was reported ...
Finding 2025-003 Name of Responsible Individual: Bryce Durbin, Director of Institutional Research & Registrar Corrective Action Plan: Management agrees with the finding that one student’s Program Begin Date was incorrectly reported to NSLDS. For this new student, the Program Begin Date was reported as 5/14/2021, the date the new student transitioned from admissions to registration, rather than the actual first day of the academic term in which the student began enrollment in the program, as required by Part 5 of the 2025 Compliance Supplement. Beginning with the 2020 OMB Compliance Supplement, enrollment reporting requirements were expanded to include additional compliance data elements for NSLDS. During the 2020-2021 award year, the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), the College’s third-party servicer for enrollment reporting, encountered program level data integrity issues. In response, new warning codes were introduced in December 2021, including WC 1811 Series, which addresses mismatch flags in Program Begin Date. In this case, however, no warning flag was triggered for the student. The Registrar Office will follow up with NSC to identify why the warning flag did not trigger. Moving forward, Registrar Office staff will review enrollment reporting files to verify that each student’s Program Begin Date reflects the first day of the term in which the program enrollment began, unless the student’s enrollment in the program was on an earlier date. Anticipated Completion Date: December 31, 2025