Definition

The data point "IR Credits+Hours Sum" in the CBIL Enrollment Report and CBIL Flash Dataset includes both degree credits and remedial hours and is calculated by summing all of the values in the item "IR Crd Hrs Sem Total" for a given term. The item "IR Crd Hrs Sem Total" in the table CBIL_HISTORY_FACTS is calculated by aggregating the items "IR Credits" and "IR Equated Credits" from the table CBIL_HISTORY_COURSE_FACTS.

The item "IR Credits" in the table CBIL_HISTORY_COURSE_FACTS includes the total number of credits applicable towards a degree for the course/section of regular, compensatory, developmental, graduate, and laboratory courses.


The item "IR Equated Credits" in the table CBIL_HISTORY_COURSE_FACTS includes the total number of remedial hours per week for course/section of compensatory, developmental, and noncredit remedial courses.


Caveats

While in OIRA terminology, "equated credits" have traditionally referred to the remedial portion of a course load, in the SIMS system "equated credits" included both degree credits and remedial hours, i.e., total billable credits. Units progress in CUNYfirst are similar to equated credits in SIMS.

Because not all units progress from CUNYfirst are included the in item "IR Crd Hrs Sem Total" in the table CBIL_HISTORY_FACTS, it may be less than the field UNT_TAKEN_PRGRSS in the table CF_STDNT_CAR_TERM.

Units progress in message courses (including those for permits-out) are not included in the item "IR Crd Hrs Sem Total". While permits are included in the Headcount of the home college, their credits and hours are included in the FTE of the host college.

When units progress exceed units taken in regular, graduate, or laboratory courses, the excess units are not included the item "IR Crd Hrs Sem Total". It is not unusual for nursing and medical technology courses to have more contact hours than billable credits and more billable credits than credits that count towards FTEs.

The item "IR Crd Hrs Sem Total" cannot be evaluated for courses missing a Requirement Designation because it is used to determine the "IR Course Type".

Official enrollment reports are produced from Show-Registration files generated from I-184a extracts scheduled in CUNYfirst after the last day students are eligible for a 25% tuition refund ("cutoff date" or "census date"). For the community colleges, courses with WN grades are excluded from the credits and hours used to compute FTEs in official enrollment reports because students receiving WN grades had not participated in any classes prior to the cutoff date. In CBIL, however, such logic has not yet been applied to the item "IR Crd Hrs Sem Total" because the CBIL Enrollment Report and the Flash Dataset are used primarily before the cutoff date comes.

Also see Headcount and FTE

Sample Mapping from CUNYfirst
CF_STDNT_ENRL.
UNT_PRGRSS
CF_STDNT_ENRL.
UNT_TAKEN
CF_CRSE_CATALOG_CTLG.
RQMNT_DESIGNTN
CBIL_HISTORY_COURSE_FACTS.
IR_COURSE_TYPE_CODE
CBIL_HISTORY_COURSE_FACTS.
IR_CREDITS
CBIL_HISTORY_COURSE_FACTS.
IR_EQUATED_CREDITS
CBIL_HISTORY_FACTS.
IR_CRD_HRS_SEM_TOTAL
3.00
3.00
FCER
R
3.0
0.0
3.0
4.00
3.00
RECC
C
3.0
1.0
4.0
5.00
3.00
COPD
D
3.0
2.0
5.0
0.00
3.00
NNL
N
0.0
3.0
3.0
3.00
3.00
GLA
G
3.0
0.0
3.0
1.00
1.00
LNL
L
1.0
0.0
1.0
3.00
3.00
MNL
M
0.0
0.0
0.0