United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1997-07-29 monographic deposited born digital 16 p. GA 1.13:T-AIMD-97-147 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-97-147 P0b002ee18039cb23 f:ai97147t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-97-147 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-97-147 T-AIMD-97-147 Student financial aid Data integrity Higher education Systems design Student loans Computer networks Management information systems Strategic information systems planning Dept. of Education National Student Loan Data System Federal Family Education Loan Program Pell Grant Dept. of Education Campus Based Programs William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Dept. of Education Title IV Program Dept. of Education Easy Access for Students and Institutions Project Testimony AIMD GAO discussed its review of the Department of Education's progress in integrating its National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) with other student financial aid systems, as required by law.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) the Department of Education has made only limited progress in integrating NSLDS with the other student financial aid systems that support title IV programs; (2) this is largely because the Department has not developed an overall systems architecture, a framework needed to allow these disparate systems to operate in concert with each other; (3) as a result, while information can be shared among systems, the process is cumbersome, expensive, and unreliable; (4) further, the lack of a systems architecture allows the proliferation of individual stand-alone systems; (5) this is expensive, not only with respect to system procurement, operation, and maintenance, but also in terms of efficiency; (6) such an approach has served immediate program needs on a limited basis, but undermines sharing of student financial aid information across programs; and (7) this, in turn, can result in different databases containing different and perhaps conflicting information on the status of student loan or grant. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-97-147/html/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-97-147.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-97-147/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-97-147.pdf GAO/T-AIMD-97-147 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-97-147 Testimony GAO/T-AIMD-97-147; Student Financial Aid Systems: Absence of Guiding Architecture Reduces Efficiency, Ease of Use; Student financial aid Data integrity Higher education Systems design Student loans Computer networks Management information systems Strategic information systems planning Dept. of Education National Student Loan Data System Federal Family Education Loan Program Pell Grant Dept. of Education Campus Based Programs William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Dept. of Education Title IV Program Dept. of Education Easy Access for Students and Institutions Project