The
Degree Partnership
Program
Purpose and Goals
• Joint admission / concurrent enrollment
• Improve student access, success and
4-year degree completion
• Expand options for college-level services
and curriculum.
• Improve academic program articulation.
• Gain efficiency and effectiveness
Getting The Word Out
Promoting DPP
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LBCC expands reach
The Trouble with Transfer
“So you are merging?”
LBCC leads with, OSU follows with
Going to new communities – OR Tribes, HI,
NE Portland, & abroad.
DPP Admissions
Blake Vawter
Associate Director of Admissions
Marketing and Communications
OSU
DPP Admissions Details
• 1st year students: SAME AS TRADITIONAL OSU
ADMISSIONS
– >=3.0 GPA; 14 subjects (incl. 2yrs of foreign
language); Insight Resume; SAT/ACT score
• Transfer students: PROVIDES EARLIER ACCESS
– >=2.25 GPA; 24 credit hours; college-level
writing; MATH PLACEMENT EXAM; Insight
Resume
Speeding Up Service
• Web application only!
– Batch extract reports
– Compressed and password protected
– Banner view access by both schools
• EDI transcripts
– Two week turnaround on transcript updates
Important Dates
• Summer 2008- May 23, 2008
Fall 2008- August 29, 2008
Winter 2008-December 12, 2008
Spring 2008- March 6, 2009
• Implemented to improve service to students
on financial aid
Degree Partnership Programs
& Financial Aid
Rebecca Martinez
Associate Director of Financial Aid
and Scholarships,
Oregon State University
Financial Aid Issues
• Financial Aid Consortium Agreements – purpose
• Required by USED to ensure compliance with
regulations
• Must determine “home school” for financial aid
purposes
• Definition of “home school” varies
• Once the aid paying school is determined (HOME
school), each partner must set up their systems
appropriately
Enrollment Information Sharing
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Level of enrollment
Student Status Confirmation Report (SSCR)
Withdrawals/ R2T4/ Last Date of Attendance
End of Term grades/credits (SAP)
Monitoring for aid-eligible courses
Institutional policies and deadlines for drops, adds, receiving
W’s,
• **ESTABLISH TIMELINES FOR SHARING**
Academic Calendars
• Challenges of degree partnership programs:
• Academic calendars not in synch
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Start and end dates of terms
Quarter hour calendar vs. semester calendar
Registration dates
Fee payment
Financial aid disbursement
Why do this?
OLDE PROCESS
• Schools would manually look at credits and
decide which school would disburse aid.
• Sometime later, we decided to let the student
decide (within parameters) which school
would be the home school and disburse aid.
• Still a paper process and part of the paper
Admissions process.
Then we invented the wheel..
We used TECHNOLOGY!!
Initial Home School Process
• Send email to students explaining HOME
school parameters
• Provide link to online questionnaire for home
school declaration
Online Questionnaire
Methods of Data Sharing
THEN
• Mail /fax data/ email
• Staff access to partner institution data base
NOW
• OFAX – electronic file for financial aid
OFAX
Oregon Financial Aid Exchange
• Multiple-enrollment data exchange
for financial aid purposes
• Participating schools send in their data
via a secure web site
• OFAX server processes file
– Return matching records sent in by other
schools via password protected email
attachment
What do we want to do with the
data once we have it?
• Combine, as appropriate, with OSU data to process
student’s financial aid with concurrent enrollment
information of courses, credits and grades.
OSU’s OFAX Data Form
To infinity and beyond
• Advances in technology
• Single billing
• Statewide agreement
• Quarters/Semesters
• Maintaining human element
in a more globalized learning
environment.
-Buzz Lightyear
What can we do better?
• What role do you play in facilitating students’
successful entry into the DPP?
• What questions do you have about the process?
• What questions about the DPP are you often asked
by families or colleagues?
• What might be done to improve recruitment,
marketing, orientation, admissions, or financial aid
delivery for DPP students?