Welcome to the Student Financial Aid (SFA) component. The purpose of the SFA component is to collect information about financial aid provided to various groups of undergraduate students and military/veteran educational benefits for all students at your institution.
Student Financial Aid Workflow
- Student Success Research & Analysis (SSRA) Data Coordinator for IPEDS creates user ID's for Office of Financial Aid (OFA) Data Coordinator and Accountable Officer on behalf of the Keyholder.
- OFA gets Veterans FA data from Office of Veteran Success. (Data is generated via SAP report called Veterans Services Certification by Term(s) IPEDS)
- OFA runs extract from Data Warehouse.
- OFA Data Coordinator inputs data to IPEDS portal.
- OFA Data Coordinator runs edit report.
- SSRA Data Coordinator runs checks and balances on edit report and survey data.
- SSRA creates External Data Request (EDR) for submission in JIRA based on IPEDS calendar.
- SSRA gets survey package from IPEDS for Box folder.
- OFA sends relevant documentation to PMBA for Box.
- SSRA creates DocuSign document.
- SSRA sends sign-off via DocuSign.
- OFA Data Coordinator, OFA Accountable Officer and Key-holder sign off.
- First lock by Key-holder.
Reporting Documentation
Submission Year | Reporting Criteria | Comments | Type | |
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2022-23 | The following changes were implemented for the 2022-23 data collection period: Degree/certificate-seeking and non-degree/certificate-seeking data items were added in Parts A and B to disaggregate financial aid award amounts reported in Part B by these student categories. New FAQs were added to clarify concepts. Minor wording changes were made for clarification. | Change | ||
Resources
Box Folders
- 2022-23 Student Financial Aid IPEDS Documentation
- 2021-22 Student Financial Aid IPEDS Documentation
- 2020-21 Student Financial Aid IPEDS Documentation
- 2020-21 Student Financial Aid USF Documentation