Common Elements Used in Financial Aid
Field or Control |
Definition |
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Academic Career |
Designates all course work undertaken by a student at your academic institution that you group together in a single student record. For example, a university that has an undergraduate school, a graduate school, and several professional schools can define an undergraduate career, graduate career, and a separate career for each professional school. |
Academic Institution |
A separate entity, such as a university or college, that runs independently from other like entities and has its own set of rules and business processes. Throughout your student administration system you use Academic Institution as a key value to group data into tables and search against those tables to extract data. |
Academic Plan |
An area or areas of study that a student declares after the student is admitted to an academic program. Academic plans are linked to academic careers or academic programs. |
Academic Program |
The entity to which a student applies, is admitted, and ultimately graduates. Rules such as academic standing, honors/awards, and repeats are attached at the academic program level. |
Academic Sub-plan |
Academic subplans can be defined as minors, concentrations, or specializations. They are directly linked to an academic plan. |
Academic Year |
The period of time you define as one school year. |
Aid Year |
Used in Financial Aid to designate a year of accounting for financial aid awarding. |
Career |
See Academic Career. |
Institution |
See Academic Institution. |
Item Type |
Identifier that classifies an item on a customer's account. Item types enable schools to uniquely categorize a customer's bill. |