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Student BUP (Bulk Update Process) - Updated Template starting September 29, 2023

Student BUP (Bulk Update Process) - Updated Template starting September 29, 2023

CSAs, If a user reports one of the following:

  • Error received when uploading the file

  • Wrong format error

  • Cannot upload the template

The reply to the user is:

This tool was just upgraded with two changes and a new template is required.

The template has a new column name Student_Race (Column N)

The Student_Ethnicity values have changed (Column O)

Download the new template and consult the approved values on the instructions tab.

Another change on the Student BUP template is a column name:

 Student_TSDS_ID is now Student_State_Unique_ID (Column P)

The updated Student BUP template is located under Data Management

Just an FYI for CSAs…This is the email that users received on Friday 9/29/23 at 8:00am:

 

Date: Friday, September 29, 2023

 

To: CLI Engage Data Managers

 

Message:

 

We noticed that you have used the Student Bulk Add/Update Process (BUP) in CLI Engage and we want to inform you about an update to this tool.

 

CLI Engage will now conform to the most recent recommendations from the U.S. Census Bureau to collect ethnicity and race descriptors from individuals, and we are reflecting this change on the Student BUP template.

 

Before the change, CLI Engage collected only one descriptor named “ethnicity” that included both race and ethnicity values.

 

After the change, the template will have two distinctive fields:<