Financial Aid Data Submission Training Overview & Updates August 30, 2012

Financial Aid Data Submission TrainingOverview & Updates August 30, 2012 Tim Bonnel, SFA Coordinator Rhonda Mohr, SFA, Specialist Mike Dear, SFA Specialist Myrna Huffman, MIS Administrator

Today’s Agenda • Data Uses and Timelines • Common Errors • Reviewing Financial Aid Data • New MIS Features: • Data Element Dictionary Changes • Net Price Calculator (NPC) • Student Services Automated Reporting (SSARCC) • Data Mart Version 2.0 • Updates • Q&A

Data Uses and Timelines Financial Aid – August 30, 2012

Financial Aid Allocations Legislative Reporting Federal IPEDS Reporting Perkins Allocations/Core Indicators Gainful Employment Net Price Calculator System Office Data Mart Research Questions Legislative Analyst Office Department of Finance California Student Aid Commission UC/CSU Legislature – Committees and individual members Data Uses

October 1Financial Aid CCCCO MIS data are due to the Chancellor’s Office Mid-November Preliminary review by Financial Aid Unit Finance Report (BOGs/Pells) Early DecemberFinancial Aid report to the Legislature Perkins Career Technical Allocation (Initial) January Resubmission deadline for Perkins allocation February Final Perkins Allocation December to IPEDS Winter Collection Early February

Federal IPEDS* Reporting Data are submitted to IPEDS for California Community Colleges by both the Chancellor’s Office and by college/district. CCCCO submits all IPEDS surveys except for Finance data (revenues and expenditures). If a survey is not completed the institution is subject to a fine. *Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

Financial Aid & IPEDS IPEDS Data Collection is federally mandated to receive federal financial aid funding. Fall Collection Institutional Characteristics, Completions, 12 Month Enrollments Winter Collection Student Financial Aid Spring Collection Fall Enrollment,Graduation Rates, Human Resources and Finance* * Finance (Districts Submit Not Submitted by CCCCO MIS)

Gainful Employment Reporting (SUSPENDED) • CCCCO MIS will identify a “potential” cohort and create the detail records. • CCCCO MIS will post the records on the Data on Demand Site. The college may then use, modify, or ignore the data files. • CCCCO MIS will not submit the files for the college.

Gainful Employment Recommendations • Chancellor’s Office will generate the submission file this fall (2012) • Colleges may download / review / modify • Colleges should reconcile approved programs with IPEDS, PPA, and College records • CIP Codes • Program Titles • Award Type (certificate or degree)

Student Financial Aid Data Submission Overview Financial Aid – August 30, 2012

The Chancellor’s Office MIS Database Student Demographics (SB) Fin. Aid SF Applicant Data If SF01 = 1 FA Award Data FA Award Data FA Award Data FA Award Data

Financial Aid Reporting Domain: BOG Fee Waivers Financial Aid MIS Data 2012 FI Aid Student Demographics (SB)

Financial Aid Reporting Attendance VS. Enrollment The student must attend at least one meeting of a class during the term. Enrollment does not necessarily equate to actual attendance. Financial Aid MIS Data 2012 FI Student Demographics (SB) Enrollments (SX) Sections Courses

Financial Aid Reporting Attendance VS. Enrollment Local Enrollment Record Generated when a student enrolls in a class Attendance Student attends the class(es) for which they enrolled State Enrollment Record Generated only if the student attends the class(es) past first census date or received 1 hour positive attendance or resulted in mark on transcript. Financial Aid MIS Data 2012 FI Student Demographics (SB) Enrollments (SX) Sections Courses

Financial Aid Edit Checks Financial Aid MIS Data 2012 • Three (3) levels of edit checks are required for financial aid data. • The level of edit checks to be used is determined by the type of award(s) that a student receives. • The multi-level edit approach is required because the type of award determines how much information a college’s financial aid office must collect from a student. • Group A awards have the most strenuous checks and Group C awards the least strenuous checks FI Aid Student Demographics (SB) Student Demographics (SB)

Financial Aid Award Types GN – CNG EAAP

Common Errors Financial Aid – August 30, 2012

Common Errors • Student Id has never been reported to MIS • Not enrolled during term award was received • Awards received but SF01 not = 1 • SF01 = 1 but no awards found • Award received but no applicant record • BOGW reported as a trailing summer term award

“Student Id has never been reported to MIS” Cause: Student Id is not in CCCCO MIS Database Solution: • Generate a SB record for the student. • Resubmit the term-end data. • Resubmit the financial aid data

Financial Aid & the Student ID Financial Aid MIS Data 2012 Many Financial Aid errors are related to problems with the Student Identifier (SB00) SB00 reported in the SB file with the term data SB00 reported in the annual student files SSN updates are vital but timing is the key FI Aid Student Demographics (SB)

Student Identifier Updates SI Updates must be applied before submitting Financial Aid Data

“Not enrolled during term award was received” Cause: Student Id (SB) was not submitted for the term that the award was received Solution: • Determine the term(s) that the student received aid and generate a SB record for that term. • Resubmit the term-end data. • Resubmit the financial aid data.

“Awards received but SF01 not equal 1” Cause: SF01 = 2 thru X which indicates that an award was not received, but award records have been submitted. Solution: 1. Determine if the student did indeed receive an award. 2. Modify the SF01 to equal 1 or delete the FA data. 3. Resubmit the financial aid data.

“SF01 = 1 But No Awards Found” Cause: SF01 = 1 but no award records have been submitted. Solution: 1. Determine if the student did indeed receive an award. 2. Determine if the award record was deleted because of a syntactical or referential error. 3. Resubmit the financial aid data.

“BOGW Reported as a trailing summer term award” Cause: Student award received term is trailing summer and award type is a BOGW Solution: • Summer BOG fee waivers are always reported as "leaders" not “trailers” • Resubmit the financial aid data.

Reviewing Financial Aid Data Financial Aid – August 30, 2012

Edit Report and Analysis Report Let’s Look at an Example

Finding and Accessing Reports Analysis Report For reports prior to 2006-07 Request the General Access Password from your CISO Reports for 2011-2012 will be available at: https://misweb.cccco.edu/ssarcc/Reports.aspx No user logon/password required Data available from 2006-07 to present Categorical historical reports may still be accessed from the MIS Area

MIS Features Net Price Calculator (NPC) Student Services Automated Reporting (SSARCC) Data Mart Version 2.0

Net Price Calculator Net Price Calculator Site: https://webprod.cccco.edu/npc/XXX/npcalc.htm XXX = 3 character MIS College Code In Production Now: 2010-11 Data Data Integrity is a college responsibility

Data Mart Version 2.0 • Is available now – link on the CCCCO homepage • Data is current - New look for the Financial Aid Query • Site: http://datamart.cccco.edu/ • Still tweaking . . . . .

Updates for 2011-12 • Zero Dollar BOG FW re-submissions • The California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program (CNG EAAP) • New Edits • Elimination of LG, LH (FFELP Loans) • Zero Dollar BOG Threshold • Required EFC for federal aid / Cal Grants • Under consideration • AGI / Total Income limitations • Elimination of $0 BOG FWs

Zero Dollar BOG FW Resubmission • Call Scheduled for Aug. 30th at 3:00pm for colleges affected (open to fin aid and MIS staff) • ALL Colleges must review financial aid 2010-11 data submissions and if $0 BOG FWs are misreported, must resubmit data by Oct. 26th • 2011-12 data must comply with DED definitions (see SF21) • Colleges only need to resubmit SF and FA records • If a student identifier issue is found, work with college MIS staff for the correction

The California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program (CNG EAAP) • A new value has been added for 2011-12 reporting to cover the CSAC CNG EAAP • New value = GN (SF21) • This will be a Group C category edit

New MIS Edits • Rejection of new records for LG, LH (FFELP Loans) SF21 awards • FFELP Loans are no longer authorized as of 2010-11! • Zero Dollar BOG Threshold • If more than 7% of total BOG FWs are $0, then ALL $0 BOG FWs will be rejected. • Remaining awards that have passed edits will be accepted • Required EFC for federal aid / Cal Grants • Thousands of awards have been entered without valid EFCs, skewing analysis and creating challenges in public policy decision making

Under Consideration • AGI / Total Income Considerations • Avoid counting double income which give the perception that Pell grants are going to high income students • Elimination of $0 BOG FWs • Affects funding

QUESTIONS

Financial Aid Data Submission Training Overview & Updates August 30, 2012