NSLDS Reporting Recommendation: We recommend the University review its reporting procedures to ensure that students’ statuses are accurately 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: During a typical reporting cycle, all students’ degree information is transmitted to the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) through a standardized report generated by our Student Information System (Workday). In the instance identified, one student’s graduation status was still pending at the time we submitted degree records for all May 2025 graduates. Once the student’s status was finalized and the degree was officially conferred, we submitted the student’s information manually to the NSC. However, the degree conferral date was reported incorrectly; the actual conferral date was submitted instead of the last day of the student’s final term, which is the required standard. To prevent this issue from recurring, we will discontinue all manual degree submissions to the NSC. Going forward, we will rely exclusively on Workday-generated reports to ensure that all graduation dates are accurate, consistent, and aligned with institutional reporting standards. Name(s) of the contact person(s) responsible for corrective action: James Patton, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and University Registrar Planned completion date for corrective action plan: This change in our data-reporting procedure has already been implemented. The updated process was in place for the most recent degree verification cycle, which was reported to the National Student Clearinghouse on 01-02-2026. If the U.S. Department of Education has questions regarding these plans, please call Dawn Durham at 864-294-2429.