Finding 1176222 (2025-002)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
N
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-03-03

AI Summary

  • Answer: Management agrees with the audit finding and recommendation.
  • Trend: This indicates a positive response to addressing issues identified in the audit.
  • List: Review the separate corrective action plan for specific steps to be taken.

Finding Text

Management concurs with this finding and recommendation. See separate corrective action plan document.

Corrective Action Plan

During testing of the Special Tests and Provisions compliance requirement, the College did not timely and accurately report changes in student enrollment status, including graduation, at both the campus level and academic program level, as required by the U.S. Department of Education. A significant pattern observed was that students who graduated were not reported to National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) as having completed their program before subsequently enrolling in additional coursework. As a result, NSLDS continued to reflect these students as active, rather than completed, at the time new enrollment was reported. This leads to inaccurate federal enrollment records and may affect students’ loan repayment timelines and grace period calculations. Corrective Action: 1. Process Checks Implemented: Our staff that complete reporting for graduation to the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) will use the NSC error reports to identify students who have graduated in one program but are continuing into another program. They will then manually correct the students’ records via the error resolution process with NSC. This happens within the 60-day window. 2. Correction to Existing Records: The impacted students (762 students from March 2024 to October 2024) have been properly reported manually in NSC by our processors and now display with proper graduation information from programs that they have completed. 3. Staff Training: A meeting was held with the NSC processing staff to ensure that we are reporting within 30 days of the receipt of final grades/system graduation processing and correcting error reports received from NSC within 30 days of receipt of such reports. Ongoing Compliance The Registrar’s Office will audit their NSC reported graduates each term moving forward to ensure that any “special” cases of students in multiple programs are reporting correctly when one program is completed.

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Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1176215 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1176216 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1176217 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1176218 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1176219 2025-002
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1176220 2025-002
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1176221 2025-002
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.063 FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM $22.34M
84.268 FEDERAL DIRECT STUDENT LOANS $7.74M
84.048 CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION -- BASIC GRANTS TO STATES $1.07M
84.007 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS $640,687
93.493 CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTIVES $472,386
11.619 ARRANGEMENTS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE $446,836
64.027 POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE $398,951
84.033 FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM $366,975
11.307 ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE $296,686
93.558 TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES $188,162
47.076 STEM EDUCATION (FORMERLY EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES) $179,322
84.126 REHABILITATION SERVICES VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION GRANTS TO STATES $135,651
20.235 COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR SAFETY TRAINING GRANTS $109,625
10.561 STATE ADMINISTRATIVE MATCHING GRANTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM $84,973
93.173 RESEARCH RELATED TO DEAFNESS AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS $69,282
20.701 UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS PROGRAM $64,966
93.044 SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AGING, TITLE III, PART B, GRANTS FOR SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND SENIOR CENTERS $61,985
47.041 ENGINEERING $126
94.016 AMERICORPS SENIORS SENIOR COMPANION PROGRAM (SCP) 94.016 $86