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Download full textMarisol Cruz Cain; Kaelin Kuhn, Contributor; Nicole Jarvis, Contributor; David Matcham, Contributor; Jillian Clouse, Contributor; Rebecca Eyler, Contributor; Ashley Mattson, Contributor; Brandon Mitchell, Contributor; Walter Vance, Contributor – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
For decades, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms were processed electronically by the legacy Central Processing System. In 2021 the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) initiated a system development effort and in December 2023 deployed a new system to process forms for the 2024-2025 school year. However, student aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs, Audits (Verification), Information Systems
Melissa Emrey-Arras – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the entry ramp to federal grants and loans that many students depend on to afford college. Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act in 2020 in part to make it easier to apply for federal aid. However, Education's rollout of the new FAFSA has suffered from numerous challenges and delays.…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs, Audits (Verification), Information Systems
Simmons, Peter, Ed.; Hopkinson, Alan, Ed. – 1984
The purpose of the Common Communication Format (CCF) is to provide a detailed and structured method for recording a number of mandatory and optional data elements in a computer-readable bibliographic record for exchange purposes between two or more computer-based systems. However, it can also be useful within non-computerized bibliographic…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Computer Software, Data Processing, Databases
Council on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1981
This publication specifies a set of general and technical requirements that must be met by the proposed Name Authority File Service in order to create an integrated, consistent name authority file for a nationwide library and information services network. Contributions from selected institutions operating online to a single computer-based system…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Networks, Information Systems, Library Networks
Simmons, Peter, Ed.; Hopkinson, Alan, Ed. – 1988
This report provides the specifications for a bibliographic format which is a detailed and structured method for recording a number of mandatory and optional data elements in a computer-readable bibliographic record for exchange purposes between two or more computer-based systems. The specifications are designed to permit local designers to devise…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Bibliographic Utilities, Computer Networks
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. – 1985
This hearing, which is the first of a series of hearings on the 1990 decennial census, focuses on automation activities, pretest preparations, and proposed residency rules. Gene L. Dodaro, associate director of the General Accounting Office, calls on the committee to use special purpose tests to adequately evaluate the following: (1) potential of…
Descriptors: Automation, Census Figures, Data Collection, Data Processing
Cok, Mary Van Someren; And Others – 1981
Published by National Assembly of State Arts Agencies as a part of a 4-year project to improve arts management and develop national systems for organizing crucial data on arts programs and resources, this manual is a comprehensive publication on information management for nonprofit arts administrators. It includes (1) explanations of manual,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Art, Computer Oriented Programs, Directories
PDF pending restorationMillen, Celeste; And Others – 1992
Intended to describe an ideal system for William Madison Randall Library at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, this outline presents specific system requirements that would build on and enhance features available on the current system while moving toward a truly integrated system with built-in possibilities for expansion and improvements…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Integrated Library Systems
Miller, R. Bruce – 1986
Based on responses solicited from 26 Association of Research Library (ARL) members reflecting a variety of systems office configurations, this report describes the configurations at several ARL institutions and presents some major organizational patterns for systems offices and their relationship to the larger library organization. Original…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Higher Education, Library Administration
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1991
The final report of the congressionally-mandated Special Study Panel on Education Indicators (SSPEI) that was transmitted to Congress as required by the Hawkins-Stafford Education Amendments of 1988 is presented. This report is divided into two sections. Part I--"Education Counts"--presents the SSPEI's overall conception of how an…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Indicators
Nevada State Dept. of General Services, Carson City. – 1988
This document offers the results of a study of Nevada's telecommunications requirements, based on a comprehensive survey of existing networks associated with state and local governments, school districts, and the university system. It reports that Nevada can accrue benefits from telecommunications in the areas of education, economic development,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cost Estimates, Educational Technology, Information Needs
Ruckel, Carol J., Ed. – 1993
These guidelines are intended to assist Colorado school districts and boards of cooperative services (BOCS) in developing systems which meet the requirements of the Certificated Personnel Performance Evaluation Act (as amended), which mandates written systems for performance evaluation of all certificated personnel. The guidelines distinguish…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on House Administration. – 1992
To learn first hand how the libraries of North Carolina, especially public libraries, function in spite of budget cuts, a hearing was held in Lumberton (North Carolina) to hear the testimony of interested parties from the state and national levels and specifically from the congressional district of southeastern North Carolina. While library…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Financial Support, Futures (of Society), Hearings
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Accounting and Information Management Div. – 1997
This is a report evaluating the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS), which is designed to track federal student financial aid (Title IV) programs and provide research and support functions such as prescreening of aid applicants for eligibility and enrollment status. The report finds that the Department of Education has made only limited…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Database Design, Databases
