FTIC

CURRENT USF FTIC COHORT DEFINITIONS

Current cohorts are defined for FTICs starting in Summer or Fall; there are four cohorts defined in Banner:

SRKALLyy08:

• FTIC full and part time who start in Summer and continue to Fall or..
• FTIC full and part time who start in Fall
• This cohort would be assigned after Fall Drop/Add
• Inactivation for adjusted cohort until 6^th year
• Mimics cohort used for Performance Based Funding (PBF) BOT Choice and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) 6 year graduation rate metrics

FTICFTyy08:

• FTIC full time only who start in Summer and continue to Fall or…
• FTIC full time only who start in Fall
• This cohort would be assigned after Fall Drop/Add
• Inactivation for adjusted cohort until 6^th year

FTIC4Yyy08:

• FTIC full time who start in Summer and continue to Fall or..
• FTIC full time who start in Fall
• This cohort would be assigned after Fall Drop/Add
• Inactivation for adjusted cohort until 4^th year
• Mimics cohort used for PBF and Pre-Eminence (PE) 4 year graduation rate metrics

FTICRTyy08:

• FTIC full time only who start in Summer and continue to Fall or…
• FTIC full time only who start in Fall
• This cohort would be assigned after Fall Drop/Add
• Inactivation for adjusted cohort until 1^st year
• Mimics cohort used for PBF Academic Progress Rate and PE Retention rate metrics

* Effective term is the term for which students have the Cohort attribute assigned to their student data. When a change is made to the student Cohort record then the data can be changed for the existing Effective term or a new record can be created for a new Effective term.

COHORT SCENARIOS

1.     Student admitted in Summer, continues to Fall as a Full-time student

• Put in SRKALLyy08 cohort at first Fall Drop/Add
• Put in FTICFTyy08 cohort at first Fall Drop/Add
• Put in FTIC4Yyy08 cohort at first Fall Drop/Add
• Put in FTICRTyy08 cohort at first Fall Drop/Add

2.     Student admitted in Summer, continues to Fall as a Part-time student

• Put in SRKALLyy08 cohort at first Fall Drop/Add

3.     Student admitted in Summer, doesn’t continue to Fall

• Does not get tagged in cohort

4.     Student admitted in Fall as a Full-time student

• Put in SRKALLyy08 cohort at Fall Drop/Add
• Put in FTICFTyy08 cohort at Fall Drop/Add

5.     Student admitted in Fall as a Part time student

• Put in SRKALLyy08 cohort at Fall Drop/Add

6.     SRKALLyy08, FTICFTyy08, FTIC4Yyy08 and FTICRTyy08 cohort inactivation (for reasons other than not continuing to Fall).

                  Timeline: In February during Change Cohort file submission by ODS to BOG 


• Students will be inactivated from the cohort and will be removed for the following reasons:
• Death of Student 

• Student is Totally and Permanently Disabled 

• Student left to serve in Armed Services
• Student left to serve with Foreign Aid Service of the federal government, e.g., Peace Corps 

• Student left due to natural disaster such as hurricane 

• Student left to serve on Official Church Mission 

• Student entered an Advanced Graduate program without earning a bachelor’s degree 


Notes:

• The above exclusions/changes to cohorts will be scheduled yearly in February and is dependent on Retention (RET) Change Cohort File submission by ODS to BOG.
  
• As per BOG, Student left due to natural disaster such as hurricane is no longer terms for inactivation (SUDS Workshop Proceedings, June 2018).
  
• Once the Retention Change Cohort file is accepted by BOG, ODS will make the changes with the URO to Banner cohorts.