Name of Responsible Individual: Maria Taylor, Registrar & Jenn Hall, Director of Financial Aid
Corrective Action: It was identified during the Student Financial Aid audit that Wingate University (WU) is out of compliance with the enrollment reporting requirements for two students (one student at th...
Name of Responsible Individual: Maria Taylor, Registrar & Jenn Hall, Director of Financial Aid
Corrective Action: It was identified during the Student Financial Aid audit that Wingate University (WU) is out of compliance with the enrollment reporting requirements for two students (one student at the campus level and one student at both the campus level and program level). We currently contract with the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) for enrollment reporting and have identified the compliance issue to be a disconnect between the reporting requirements in place with NSC and WU Institutional policy.
For each identified student, the student was permitted by WU policy to complete their degree requirements after the end of the academic term. When reporting the Graduated status in NSC, the Registrar is required to select the last date of the term as the Graduation Date instead of the date the student actually completed their degree requirements. When this occurs more than 60 days from the end of the term, the student is noted as out of compliance with reporting requirements due to the limitation identified with NSC.
The Registrar and Director of Financial Aid will work with NSC to identify a solution for reporting the actual completion date for a student when it occurs after the conclusion of the standard term and outside of the reporting definitions offered by NSC. If a viable solution cannot be identified with NSC, we will establish a policy to manually update data in NSLDS for impacted students to meet the 60-day reporting requirements for enrollment status changes.
Anticipated Completion Date: May 31, 2025