This is the six digit number that identifies the salary expense to be used when setting up a new combination code in the combination code table. The six digit account is part of the twenty-five digit Account Code.  

Degree credit activities for which other, typically non-college course or training content has been evaluated and deemed equivalent to specific courses at the institution. Specific course equivalents are detailed in a corresponding articulation agreement prior to the non-college course or training. 

The Date the application for admission was processed into Campus Connection.  

This uniquely identifies the application to a specific program, plan and term  

Signifies a type of student that applies for admission to an institution. 

The pay status of the application fee  

The campuses create their own action reasons, which are tied to the program actions. The action reason offers a further description of the program action.  

This heierarchy of addresses is used in letter generation and report production. It goes in descending order 

This residency group is coded for the dependents of NDUS alumni.Per SBHE Policy 805.1(3)(b), Undergraduate students who are children or spouses of graduates of NDUS institutions qualify for a tuition rate that is 150% of the resident rate, regardless of residency. Students meeting this requirement should be coded as ALDEP. 

The dollar amount of an accepted financial aid award that has passed disbursement edits and been authorized for disbursement. Edits may vary item type by item type, based on rules set up for that item type. 

Called Aid Year Code in the Data Warehouse. In NDUS, generally Fall, Spring and Summer terms that belong together. 

The date the ISIR transaction was received by the Central Processing System. 

The Packaging Status Summary page is created when a student is Aid Year activated, and at that time the Aid Application Status is set to Active. If a school later learns that a student will not be attending, the the school sets the status to Canceled to prevent the student from being selected for packaging by the NDU Ready Package process. Setting the status to Restricted will also prevent the student from being selected for packaging and should be the setting used for temporarily preventing packaging. 

The Packaging Status Summary page is created when a student is Aid Year activated, and at that time the Aid Processing Status is set to Applied if an ISIR is posted, or No Electronic Application is no ISIR is posted. The NDU Ready Packaging process may set the status to Ready for Packaging (for batch packaging) or Ready for Counselor Review if manual intervention is needed. When the student has been packaged, the packaging process changes this status to Packaging Completed. NDUS does not currently use the Repackage status. 

If Set to NSLDS, packaging uses National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) aggregate history totals that have been pushed into the PeopleSoft aggregate tables for packaging. NSLDS aggregate history data is loaded and pushed directly during ISIR data loads. If set to PS, packaging uses the existing undergraduate and graduate totals currently maintained by the institution on the aggregate tables. Aggregate Source is either set at the installation default level or individually for each student on the Packaging Status Summary or award page components. nents.  

Tuition amount charged to those students coded with a residency of Alumni Dependent. 

Student Finance table that holds all the account information for a student as displayed on the Customer Accounts page. 

This is the code representing the account type in student financials. Account Types can vary amongst the campuses as well as the account codes. There is no consistency with these codes.  

A fee charged to all students applying to an institution at either the undergraduate or graduate level or to a professional program.  

A further description of the enrollment action. The campuses create their own action reasons. 

A grouping of students by academic level, such as Undergraduate and Graduate. 

A grouping of students within a career defined by credit hours earned and institutional policy.  

Small subsets of the Institution (Alumni Office, President's Office, Police Department, Department of Accounting). All Academic Groups are also in Academic Organizations. 

A subplan is a group of courses within an approved academic plan which is identified in an institutional catalog. 

Fall Semester, Spring Semester, and Summer Semester. For example: 2010 Academic Year consists of 2009 Fall Semester (1010), 2010 Spring Semester (1030), and 2010 Summer Semester (1040). 

See Confer Date 

Placeholder for future decision on implementing compensation mart. 

Placeholder for future decision on implementing compensation mart. 

The Action is associated with a change to an employee's job record. Examples are retirement, termination, pay rate change, etc. For each HR action, a new row is inserted into the HR job data. For example, when an employee retires a new row with an action code of RET is loaded to the data mart. 

The action effective date is the date the action becomes effective. For example, if a person’s hire date is effective 8/16, then the action effective date is 8/16, even if the row was entered on 9/1. This differs from the action date which only notes when the row was entered into PeopleSoft. 

Action types are used to categorize the actions established in the Data Warehouse. 

The age describes how old a person is. It is based on date of birth which the system then calculates the age.