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Federal Program Information: Student Financial Assistance Cluster (ALN: Various) Criteria or Specific Requirement (Including Statutory, Regulatory or Other Citation): N. Enrollment Reporting ? The University is required to update students? statuses on the National Student Loans Data System (?NSLDS?) website if they graduate, withdraw or drop to less than half-time status during the fiscal year within 30 days of the date the University becomes aware of the change in enrollment status. Additionally, institutions are responsible for timely reporting, whether they report directly or via a third-party servicer. As with any school/servicer arrangement for the administration of the Title IV programs, if the school uses a third party to meet the NSLDS enrollment reporting requirements, it is the school that must ensure that enrollment information is submitted timely, accurately, and completely. According to the Federal Student Aid Handbook, schools are required to certify enrollment for all students who are included on their roster file scheduled at least every two months, and within 15 days of the date that NSLDS sends a roster file to the school or its third-party servicer. Any errors identified and returned by NSLDS in an Error/Acknowledgement file should be corrected and resubmitted within 10 days. Condition: For a certain student whose status changed during the year, the University failed to submit a timely notification to the NSLDS website. Additionally, the University?s fiscal year SCHER1 report, included multiple instances in which error records were not corrected within the required timeframe. Cause: Lack of administrative oversight with respect to enrollment reporting compliance requirements. Effect or Potential Effect: The University is not in compliance with enrollment reporting compliance requirements. Questioned Costs: None. Context: For 1 of 40 students sampled whose status changed during the year, the University failed to submit a timely notification to the NSLDS website. Additionally, error records identified in Error/Acknowledgment files were not corrected within the required timeframe, resulting in multiple errors during the 2022 fiscal year. Identification as a Repeat Finding: This is a repeat finding from prior year. This was reported as Finding 2021-001 in the prior year schedule of findings and questioned costs. Recommendation: We recommend that the University implement procedures to ensure that that all status changes are submitted to the NSLDS website within the required timeframe and that error records are corrected and submitted timely.