This Week In IPEDS (TWII)

Opting Out of Receiving Reminders

By popular demand, NCES has added an option to permit eligible Keyholders to “Opt-Out” of scheduled reminders. During each IPEDS collection period, Keyholders currently receive up to three reminder emails, and a phone call, if data have not been entered and/or locked by certain dates during the collection period, as indicated below:

• 4 weeks prior to deadline: email reminder if no surveys have been started
• 2 weeks prior to deadline: email reminder if all surveys are not yet locked
• 2 weeks prior to deadline: phone call to CEO if no surveys have been started
• 1 week prior to deadline: email reminder if all surveys are not yet locked

Keyholders may now “Opt-Out” of receiving all of these reminders with the exception of the “1 week prior to deadline” reminder email. To participate in “Opt-Out” opportunity, login to the collection system, go to the Tools menu and select “Follow-up Opt Out”. After reading the instructions, choose the radio button as appropriate. This action must be repeated for EACH collection period, if the Keyholder chooses to continue opting-out. Note that all IPEDS compliance requirements still apply, and institutions will not be granted extensions for failure to meet the reporting deadline.

Federal Register Notice and Comment Period for IPEDS 2008-09 HEOA Revisions

As noted in a previous announcement (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/InsidePages/TrainingAnnouncements?date=2008-August-22&id=956), IPEDS must implement several revisions to the current 2008-09 data collection year due to requirements in the HEOA legislation. A required official announcement regarding the changes for the IPEDS Spring data collection was recently posted in the Federal Register: http://frwebgate1.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/PDFgate.cgi?WAISdocID=27665480154+1+1+0&WAISaction=retrieve .

See the Federal Register notice for instructions on submitting comments on the changes; these comments are due on or before Nov. 24, 2008.

Comments on Proposed Changes to CIP

You have one last week to comment on the proposed changes to the CIP. To view the list of proposed changes, log into the IPEDS Data Collection system, go to the Help menu, and click on the CIP review link. Any changes adopted will be available for use in the Fall 2010 IPEDS collection, for reporting program completions from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010. Please send any comments on the proposed changes to CIP@ed.gov by October 3, 2008

For more information on any of these three items, please do not hesitate to contact the Help Desk.

IPEDS Help Desk
Toll Free 1-877-225-2568
ipedshelp@rti.org