Content Comparison

ACTION_DT

The date any transaction is entered into the student record.

This is an example of one student’s undergraduate academic program record. It is sorted chronologically by effective date from oldest to newest.

The Action Date is the date when the information was input entered into the system. The Eff Date (, while the Effective Date ) is the date when the action becomes effectiveactually takes effect.

Consider today’s date to be 42/12/2023. In the example below, this student’s status today would be DC - Discontinued. See record in red text“today” is DC (Discontinued). This student is not considered AC - Active will not be active until 5/8/2023, the effective date of the record, even though it’s its Action Date is 3/31/2023 which is prior to “today”.

Consider Next, consider today’s date to be 4/1/2023. The last row in the example below, is known as future effective-dated. This action, entered on 3/31/2023, will take effect on 5/8/2023.

Career Eff Date Acad Prog Status Prog Actn Action Date
UGRD 12/7/2015 UACES AP APPL 12/7/2015
UGRD 2/20/2016 UACES AD ADMT 2/20/2016
UGRD 3/16/2016 UACES PM DEIN 3/16/2016
UGRD 5/12/2016 UACES AC MATR 5/12/2016
UGRD 8/26/2018 UACES DC VDIS 9/11/2018
UGRD 4/12/2022 UACES AC RADM 4/12/2022
UGRD 5/8/2022 UCLAS AC PRGC 4/29/2022
UGRD 1/16/2023 UCLAS DC VDIS 1/31/2023
UGRD 5/8/2023 UCLAS AC RADM 3/31/2023

• Changes to the student record can be future effective-dated.

• Most Registrar reports are based on the current date and do not include transactions with future effective dates.

• Effective Date, Academic Program Status