AIR Alert 37: Proposed Changes for 2009-10 IPEDS
Valerie Martin Conley, Chair HEDPC (air@airweb.org)

Check the online AIR Alert Web site (http://www.airweb.org/airalerts) for information about proposed changes for the 2009-10 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The National Center for Education Statistics is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to collect additional data for the Institutional Characteristics (IC) and Student Financial Aid (SFA) IPEDS surveys, to modify the reporting of student-to-faculty-ratio data, and to simplify reporting for non-degree granting institutions.

If the proposed changes are approved, institutions will be required to provide data in 2009-10 relating to financial aid disaggregated by living arrangements (on-campus, off-campus with family, and off-campus not with family) for two aid years that have already ended (2006-07 and 2007-08) in addition to the current aid year (2008-09).

Individuals reporting IPEDS SFA data need to be aware that starting in spring 2010, they will be reporting financial aid data for three different groups of students: 1) all first-time full-time students; 2) the subset of this first group who receive federal, state, or institutional grant aid; and 3) the subset of the second group who receive any type of Title IV, HEA student aid.

IR officers may wish to forward the AIR Alert link to their financial aid and IT offices and to other relevant individuals on their campuses. They should also watch for an AIR announcement that the proposed changes have been approved.

Coordinated by the Higher Education Data Policy Committee. All opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Association for Institutional Research.

Valerie Martin Conley
HEDPC Committee Chair