In a recent email to institutions’ primary IPEDS contacts, the Department of Education (ED) requested that grantee institutions submit contact information for campus officials who should receive an email from ED later in December with login information for the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) Annual Report Data Collection System.
The email asks institutions to provide contact information for a Submitter and an Editor, no later than tomorrow, Dec. 4, 2020. The Submitter is the grant official with the authority to submit the report on behalf of the grant, while the Editor is a user who can answer the questions in the data collection form, but who will not have Submitter authority, according to ED’s email. Institutions are asked to submit the first and last name and email address for the submitter, editor, and an optional second editor to heerfannual@ed.gov.
For background, the HEERF Annual Report Data Collection System was announced in the Federal Register in July to satisfy HEERF reporting requirements specified in section 18004(e) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which states that an institution “receiving funds under this section shall submit a report to the Secretary, at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may require, that describes the use of funds provided under this section.”