Finding 1205208 (2025-006)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
N
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-03-31
Audit: 396871
Organization: Salem Community College (NJ)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The College failed to update student enrollment statuses on the NSLDS website for 41 out of 51 students within the required 60-day timeframe.
  • Impacted Requirements: This noncompliance violates OMB federal grant requirements related to accurate and timely reporting.
  • Recommended Follow-up: The College should enhance its policies and procedures for enrollment reporting to ensure timely and accurate submissions to the NSLDS.

Finding Text

2025-006 Special Tests and Provisions – Enrollment Reporting Federal Assistance Listing Number: 84.007, 84.033, 84.063 and 84.268 Name of Program or Cluster: Student Financial Aid Cluster Agency: U.S. Department of Education Criteria: The College is required to update students’ statuses on the National Student Loans Data System (“NSLDS”) website if they graduate, withdraw or have an increase/decrease in attendance level during the year within 60 days of the date the College becomes aware of the change in enrollment status. Condition: SCC did not submit an accurate and/or timely status change notification to the NSLDS website for forty-one out of fifty-one students sampled from a total population of students who graduated, withdrew, or had an increase/decrease in attendance level during the year. Cause: Management oversight. Effect: Noncompliance with OMB federal grant compliance requirements. Questioned Costs: None. Repeat Finding: Yes, see finding 2024-005 Recommendation: The College should properly follow its policies and procedures over enrollment reporting to ensure that all status changes are submitted to the NSLDS website accurately and within the required timeframe. Views of Responsible Officials: See corrective action plan attached.

Corrective Action Plan

Views of Responsible Officials: SCC’s implementation of Student First on August 10, 2026, will help rectify the enrollment reporting issues.

Categories

Special Tests & Provisions Student Financial Aid Reporting Matching / Level of Effort / Earmarking Internal Control / Segregation of Duties

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1205205 2025-006
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1205206 2025-006
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1205207 2025-006
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.063 FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM $3.04M
84.268 FEDERAL DIRECT STUDENT LOANS $1.23M
84.334 GAINING EARLY AWARENESS AND READINESS FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS $324,697
84.048 CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION -- BASIC GRANTS TO STATES $126,778
84.007 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS $38,878
84.033 FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM $34,941