Ethnicity/Race Reporting Changes Coming Soon To Student Administration and Human Resource Data Sets

Modifications related to new federal race/ethnicity reporting requirements will be applied to M-Pathways Student Administration and Human Resource data sets on August 10, 2009.

ACTION ITEM
Please forward this e-mail to additional staff in your department who may need to know about these changes.

RACE/ETHNICITY MODIFICATIONS
Modifications will be made in response to the Higher Education Opportunity Act passed August 14, 2008, that requires all Postsecondary institutions to collect and report data on race and ethnicity in a substantially different manner than previously reported. Changes include:
-- Values in the Ethnic Group fields
-- New race/ethnicity reporting fields in several Student Administration data sets and their related BusinessObjects universes

TIMELINE
Changes will go into effect:
-- August 10, 2009, for Admissions Roster, Recruiting and Admissions and Student Records data sets.
-- August 14, 2009, for Financial Aid/Student Financials and the Human Resource data sets.
-- For all other impacted Student Administration and Human Resource data sets, the changes will be reflected the next time they are scheduled to be refreshed. View refresh schedules at:
http://www.mais.umich.edu/reporting/datasets_refresh.html#stu

RESOURCES
-- Details about upcoming changes to the data sets are on the MAIS website and in My LINC
-- Updated data dictionaries for the following data sets will be available on August 10:
Recruiting and Admissions, Student Records, Financial Aid/Student Financials and Admissions Snapshot.
Updates to other data dictionaries are not required.
-- Find information about the new IPEDS Race/Ethnicity data collection and reporting approach at:
<http://www.provost.umich.edu/reports/FAQ_Race_and_Ethnicity.pdf>
<http://www.provost.umich.edu/reports/RaceEthnicityDataCollection.pdf>

FOR ASSISTANCE OR QUESTIONS
Contact the Help Desk:
-- Phone: 734-936-7000, option 7
-- E-mail: maishelpdesk@umich.edu
-- Web: <http://www.mais.umich.edu/online_help_desk/>

To: "M-Pathways Student Administration and Human Resource Data Set Users"
From: MAIS.Inform
Subject: Ethnicity/Race Reporting Changes Coming Soon To Student Administration and Human Resource Data Sets
Date: Monday, August 03, 2009