?MARCH 20, 2024

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System Maintenance: CEPI Applications and MI School Data

CEPI applications and MI School Data will be intermittently offline for maintenance on Sunday, April 7 from 6 a.m. to noon EDT. Only limited informational inquires will be available during this time.

Work in Progress

Updated 2023-24 STARR User Materials

The 2023-24 STARR Data Manual and STARR User Guide have been published to the STARR web page.

An extensive review and update of these materials was recently completed. Please refer to the Index of Changes in the data manual for a full list of revisions from the prior school year.

Other STARR technical materials will be published as they become available. If you have any questions, contact CEPI Customer Support at [email protected].

New STARR Data Characteristic for 2023-24

After careful consideration of user requests, thorough internal investigation, and collaboration with the Adult Learner Workgroup, a new data field has been added to STARR to meet the evolving needs of our stakeholders.

Unreportable Gender Indicator is an optional data field that serves as an indication that the institution does not have a gender of male or female to submit for reporting purposes for a student record. This is a temporary solution in response to the need to report students for whom the gender is unreportable. IHEs will have the ability to report a third option in the gender field in future STARR collections once a long-term solution is implemented.

Situations that may lead to an IHE submitting the Unreportable Gender Indicator may include:

  • The student?s gender does not conform to the binary options of ?Male? or ?Female.?
  • The student?s gender is unknown.
  • The student?s gender has not been collected by their program.

Please note:

  • The Unreportable Gender Indicator does not carry over and, if submitted, must be reported in future STARR collections.
  • Due to Perkins V reporting requirements, if a student?s CTE status is ?Participant,? ?Concentrator,? or ?Exiter,? the Unreportable Gender Indicator cannot be utilized. Submitting ?Yes? for CTE students will result in an error.
  • The Unreportable Gender Indicator will not be included in the IHE Request for UIC Collection, and will only be collected in STARR.

For more information, refer to the 2023-24 STARR Data Manual and other user materials on the STARR web page. For questions or concerns, contact CEPI Customer Support at [email protected].


MI School Data News

Visit MI School Data to view updates to the College Enrollment by High School, College Enrollment Destination,? College Progression by Graduating Class, College Transfer, College Undergraduate Enrollment and? On-Track College Progress reports.

See details of this update and upcoming reports on the MI School Data News and Updates page.


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