Members' Opinions about Transcript Practices, Student ID Numbers, and Name Changes

Members' Opinions about Transcript Practices, Student ID Numbers, and Name Changes - Winter 2009

Office Policies, Practices and Procedures
Registration & Records
Research

AACRAO conducted a survey of its members in winter 2009/10 to determine their practices.

AACRAO conducted a survey of its members in winter 2009/10 to determine their practices regarding:

-notation of various items on the student’s transcript, including ineligibility to re-enroll for academic, disciplinary, or nonspecific reasons (Section I).

-use of social security numbers and other student identification numbers in the academic database and on transcripts (Section II).

-policies concerning requests to make name changes (Section III).

-use of e-mail and other communications as official documentation of administrative academic decisions (Section IV).

Unless otherwise noted in a specific report, the AACRAO member institution size, type and control categories are based on the following definitions and sources:

The enrollment value used to delineate the institution's size category is defined as full-time enrollment plus 1/3 of part-time enrollment and is based on the enrollment reported by the institution to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).