1. NSLDS Overview Current Status and Considerations for the Future Tuesday April 24, 2007, 2:30 pm 3:30 pm

2. Panelist –Pam Eliadis –Dana Purdy

3. Data Security and Data Exchange Dear Colleague Letter GEN 05-06 –NSLDS may not be used for marketing purposes –Student/Borrower’s permission is required –Reminds users of Federal Student Aid’s enforcement obligation

4. Data Security and Exchange Audit Reports –Every student look-up is tracked by User ID –External Audit Security Reports Requested by Destination Point Administrator Number of look-ups by user id Past 90 days –Internal Audit Security Reports

5. Data Security and Exchange No Data Mining Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) tool Monitoring top 20 users and organizations

7. Volumes and Statistics NSLDS data contents as of January, 2007 10,124,164,732 Total number of rows 59,853,108Students 225,637,986Loans 61,085,079Pell Grants 39,101School Branches 18,733Schools 31,589Lenders 62Guarantee Agencies

8. –Lender Manifest Subgroup Lender Manifest/CAM Overview Objectives Progress –NSLDS Workgroup Committee Makeup Purpose Lender Manifest/CAM overview and highlights of workgroup

9. NSLDS Workgroup Makeup –Subcommittee of Program Ops Currently 14 Members –1 NCHELP Member –10 Guarantors –3 Lender/Servicers Large NSLDS workgroup –60 + Participants on calls –Listserv

10. NSLDS Workgroup Purpose The NSLDS Subcommittee works closely with the Department of Educations’ Federal Student Aid office on the maintenance and improvement of the reporting of data to the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS). NSLDS is used by ED to support a number of enterprise functions that are critical to the oversight and operations of the Federal Family Educational Loan Program. The subcommittee serves as a clearinghouse for information and coordinates the development of enhancements to the reporting between guaranty agencies, lenders/servicers, secondary markets and ED. While there is a workgroup that meets directly with ED on a quarterly basis, the subcommittee has community calls open to NCHELP members to help ensure there is the opportunity for input and participation by all trading partners.

11. NSLDS Lender Manifest CAM Overview –Lender Manifest file created specifically for needed NSLDS information. Flat File Not reviewed since inception –CAM can be used to supply same information Transaction Based

12. NSLDS LM Subgroup Objectives –Update Documentation and Synchronize with NSLDS GA Data Provider Instructions (DPI) –Identify and document Best Practices –Identify changes and/or additional information to incorporate into Lender Manifest process.

13. NSLDS LM Subgroup Progress –Incorporated needed HERA changes –Accumulated past LM documentation –Mapped definitions to NSLDS DPI –Proposed documentation changes/updates –Common Manual update proposal

14. Enrollment Reporting Subcommittee –Separate Subcommittee of Program Ops Formed July, 2005 –Project Scope –Project Examples

15. School Advisory - Perkins User group

16. FFEL Data Flows Improve: Timeliness of data to be consistent with the business process requirements Collection of data to support the business process requirements –Examples of required data include: knowledge of delinquency, MPN, discharges, etc. Data Collection Approach by: –Focusing on business process and life cycle stages requirements –Adapting to Technology Standards (i.e. XML) –Implementing Data Standards (i.e. CommonLine) Consistency of Data Processes –Examples of consistency include editing of data, data exchange formats, etc.

17. FFEL Reporting Current Data Flow Student School Lender/Servicer Federal Student Aid FAFSA Loan Certification Guaranty Lender Held Activity Assignments GAFR LaRS Guarantor FFEL Reporting GA Reports most FFEL activity CPS ISIR (Orig/Disb/Sell) GA Held Activity = Retired Process Disbs FFEL Logical Data Flows Guarantor Orig/Disbs Student School Lender/Servicer Federal Student Aid FAFSA Loan Certification GA Held Activity Assignments GAFR Servicing LaRS Guaranty Proposed Data Flow FFEL Activity Reported by Data Source CPS ISIR Sell Validation Guaranty (Orig/Disb/Sell) = New Process = GA/Lender Reporting Relationship Only Disbs Lender/Servicer Info = Optional Process

18. FSA Focus Groups Data Integrity: preserving the reliability and condition of FFEL data so that it is consistently defined and maintained during any FFEL process, such as loan sales, transfers, assignments, and reporting Data Process Flows: getting the right data, to the right place, at the right time Data Collection: capturing the data needed to meet business and reporting requirements; eliminating unnecessary and duplicative data collection requirements

19. Highlights of Focus Groups –Over 70 Participants from Schools, Lenders, Guarantors, Servicers and Associations –Presentation materials, invitation lists, and sessions’ notes available on www.fp.ed.govwww.fp.ed.gov –High-Level Feedback –Next Steps

20. Questions? Speaker Name Speaker Contact Information Thank You!