ISIR Program Levels

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Regent Award considers an ISIR to be a Graduate-level ISIR when a student answers "Yes" to the FAFSA question 48, ISIR field "Working on a Master's or Doctorate Program?" If a student answers "No" or leaves that question blank, Regent Award considers the ISIR to be an Undergraduate-level ISIR. The ISIR's level is shown by the "Graduate" Y or N value on the /wiki/spaces/REM/pages/7012869Student ISIR Screen. A value of "X" in the "Graduate" column indicates the student was "grandfathered in" (to the functionality/logic prior to the introduction of this feature) and the ISIR can be used for packaging both Graduate programs and Undergraduate programs.

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When a Regent Award user processes a program change, and there are multiple Active ISIRs, Regent Award will prompt the user: "The active ISIR is not consistent with the grade level of the new program. Click here to update active ISIR." See /wiki/spaces/REM/pages/7012435. 

If the student’s Undergraduate ISIR is corrected, using the ISIR Verification/Correction Wizard, to become a Graduate level ISIR, Regent Award will not use the corrections on that ISIR to repackage the student’s Graduate awards. This allows Regent to maintain the integrity of Undergraduate ISIR data required to properly package any Undergraduate enrollments within the same FAY. When the corrected Graduate ISIR is imported, it will be applied to the student’s Graduate enrollments. Likewise, if a student has a Graduate ISIR that is corrected to become an Undergraduate ISIR, the corrections will not be used by the system in order to maintain the integrity of the Graduate ISIR data for properly packaging Graduate awards within the FAY. When the corrected Undergraduate ISIR is imported, it will be applied to the student’s Undergraduate enrollments within the FAY. 

ISIR Corrections

When the ISIR Verification/Correction Wizard is used to change a student’s program level from Undergraduate to Graduate, and the “Package Using Corrected active ISIR, Transmitted” or the “Package Using Corrected Active ISIR Not Transmitted” option is selected, Regent Award will not use the corrections on that ISIR to package the student’s Graduate awards. This allows Regent to maintain the integrity of Undergraduate ISIR data required to support eligibility determinations for any Undergraduate enrollments within the same FAY. When the corrected Graduate ISIR is imported, it will be applied to the student’s Graduate enrollments. Likewise, if a student has a Graduate ISIR that is corrected to become an Undergraduate ISIR, the corrections will not be used by the system to repackage the student in order to maintain the integrity of the Graduate ISIR data for any Graduate awards within the FAY. When the corrected Undergraduate ISIR is imported, it will be applied to the student’s Undergraduate enrollments within the FAY. This furthers our unique ability to support both Undergraduate and Graduate ISIRs in the same FAY.

Grandfathered Students

To ease the transition for this enhancement, existing students who currently have a mismatched ISIR in the system were "grandfathered in" to prior system functionality that did not require two ISIRs for two different program levels. The affected students currently have an active Graduate ISIR in an Undergraduate program, or have an active Undergraduate ISIR while in a Graduate program. For those students' current ISIRs only, Regent did a one-time data update. The data update allowed the students to continue to be packaged as if their existing active ISIR correctly matched their program level. Those students can continue using that mismatched ISIR as long as it remains their Active ISIR. If any subsequent or corrected ISIRs are loaded for those students, the new ISIRs will need to match and have a correct answer for “Working on Masters or Doctorate Program.”  Any other, future students with mismatched ISIRs will also need to correct their response to “Working on Masters or Doctorate Program." 

Grandfathered ISIRs are marked with an "X" in the "Graduate" column on the /wiki/spaces/REM/pages/7012869the Student ISIR Screen.