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Academic and Institutional Record Retention

Academic faculty records

Faculty grievance records

Department or entity: Academic Affairs
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: Academic Affairs cabinets and attic
Safe destruction date: 10 years after faculty member leaves the college
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Faculty human resource records and academic transcripts

Department or entity: Academic Affairs
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: Academic Affairs cabinets and attic
Safe destruction date: 10 years after faculty member leaves the college
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Academic budget records

Budget information

Department or entity: Academic Affairs
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: Academic Affairs cabinets and attic
Safe destruction date: Five years
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Academic schedule records

Master schedule

Department or entity: Registrar
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: Pre-2006
Storage location: Founders vault
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: AACRAO
Safe destruction date: Permanent
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Master schedule

Department or entity: Registrar
Format: Digital copy
Limiting criteria: 2006-present
Storage location: Colleague Software
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: AACRAO
Safe destruction date: Permanent
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Instructors report to registrar

Department or entity: Registrar
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: 1966-2006
Storage location: Founders vault
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: AACRAO
Safe destruction date: 10 years after graduation
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College course catalogs

Department or entity: Registrar
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: Through 2014
Storage location: Founders vault
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: AACRAO
Safe destruction date: Permanent
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College course catalogs

Department or entity: Registrar
Format: Digital copy
Limiting criteria: 2008-2016
Storage location: Website archive
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: AACRAO
Safe destruction date: Permanent
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Academic policy records

Documents (minutes and supporting materials)

Department or entity: Registrar
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: 1992-present
Storage location: Office of the Registrar
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: AACRAO
Safe destruction date: Permanent
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Institution financial aid records

Application portion of FISAP

Department or entity: Financial Aid
Format: Hard and digital copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: Financial Aid
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: DOE
Safe destruction date: Three years past the end of the award year in which the report was submitted
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FISAP supporting documents

Department or entity: Financial Aid
Format: Hard and digital copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: Financial Aid
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: DOE
Safe destruction date: Four years past the end of the award year in which the report was submitted
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Audit-Federal

Department or entity: Financial Aid
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: Financial Aid
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: DOE
Safe destruction date: Three-five years unless specifically addressed in the FPRD that records must be maintained until the later of: Resolution of the loans, claims or expenditures questioned in the program review
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Audit-State

Department or entity: Financial Aid
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: Financial Aid
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: State
Safe destruction date: Five years
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Audit-Institutional

Department or entity: Financial Aid
Format: Hard copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: Financial Aid
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: DOE
Safe destruction date: Five years
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Institutional data records

All survey data (FY surveys, Senior surveys, etc.)

Department or entity: Institutional Research and Assessment
Format: Digital copy
Limiting criteria: None
Storage location: IR website
Applicable federal/state law, agency or organization best practice: IPEDS
Safe destruction date: Permanent
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