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2024-008 – Student Financial Aid Cluster – (a) Federal Pell Grant (b) Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (c) Federal Work Study Grant (d) Federal Perkins Loan Program (e) Federal Direct Student Loans, Assistance Listing No. (a) 84.063 (b) 84.007 (c) 84.033 (d) 84.038 (e) 84.268 - Year Ended June 30, 2024
Criteria: 34 CFR 668.408 (a)(2) notes, “In accordance with procedures established by the Secretary, an institution offering any group of substantially similar programs… must report to the Department… (2) For each student – (i) Information needed to identify the student and the institution; (ii) The date the student initially enrolled in the program; (iii) The student’s attendance dates and attendance status (e.g., enrolled, withdrawn, or completed) in the program during the award year; (iv) The student’s enrollment status (e.g., full time, three-quarter time, half time, less than half time) as of the first day of the student’s enrollment in the program…”
Condition: In our testing of student files, six out of 40 students (15%) had enrollment statuses not timely or accurately reported to NSLDS. We consider this finding to be a significant deficiency in relation to the Special Tests and Provisions compliance requirement and is a repeat finding shown in Section IV of this report as prior year finding 2023-002.
Cause: The causes for the untimely and incorrect enrollment status reporting was caused by a citizenship/foreign student flag issue that was not identified and resolved timely, an identified error in their reporting system that has since been resolved, and other unknown errors.
Effect: The result is that the Department of Education was not made aware of the changes in student statuses in a timely manner and students’ enrollment dates were reported to NSLDS inaccurately or were missing.
Questioned Costs: $0
Recommendation: We recommend that the College reviews their policies and procedures to ensure students’ enrollment statuses are reported accurately and timely.
Views of Responsible Officials: Management agrees with this Single Audit Finding and response is included in the Corrective Action Plan.