057-7 Wyo. Code R. § 7-6
(a) The Commission shall maintain appropriate storage of data to fulfill its review and reporting functions. The community colleges shall adhere to the administrative computing practices (data input) outlined in the Commission's common data element dictionary, the Data Collection & Reporting Requirements Handbook. Administrative computing data fields in the community college's ACS not required for Commission data collection may be utilized by the community colleges for their own purposes. Should future reporting requirements require the use of these data fields within the college's ACS, the Data Governance/Institutional Research Council and subject-matter expert functional groups will determine the standard data to be entered into this field. If a community college had previously used the proposed data field to store data that does not meet the standard, it will be necessary for that college to change the data to match the agreed upon standard in order to maintain a common data elements dictionary.
(b) The studies and reports endorsed by statutory language necessitate periodic collection of data elements common to educational research. The Commission's Data Collection & Reporting Requirements Handbook shall specify the timelines for submission of periodically collected data elements. These data elements shall be reviewed annually by the Data Governance/Institutional Research Council with regard to contemporary progress in the educational research field as well as to ensure implemented changes have been disseminated to areas affected and recorded properly.
(c) The Commission shall request data from the community colleges and securely maintain this data in compliance with FERPA. Reports shall be structured so that personal identification of students will not be possible.
057-7 Wyo. Code R. § 7-6
Amended, Eff. 11/29/2016.
Amended, Eff. 11/21/2017.