2025-26 Audit and Reporting Guidelines Format Final- Harsha

Intercession Course: An intercession course is one that meets during the interim period between two regular semesters.

IPEDS: Refers to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. This is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and vocationalcareer institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs. The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, requires that institutions that participate in federal student aid programs report data on enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty and staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid. These data are made available to students and parents through the College Navigator college search Web site and to researchers and others through the IPEDS Data Center. Last Date of Attendance (LDA): The last date the student was physically present in the traditional course, or for a strictly online that has no sharedan MSVCC students) or MSVCC student/online course, the last day the student demonstrated activity in that strictly online course. The LDA determination for a hybrid course is based on the most appropriate definition above, depending on whether the course was meeting traditionally or online at the time of the LDA.

Tab 03 – Definition of Terms and Acronyms

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