Why do some students class year codes not coincide with their expected graduation dates?
Class Year Codes (FY, SO, JR, SR) in Banner are based solely on the number of credits a student has completed. This code is automatically calculated each time a student’s academic history changes, and cannot be manually changed. There are certain times of the year when class codes are likely to change – at the end of each term (fall, spring, summer) when we roll students’ grades to academic history. However, it’s possible that a student’s class year would change when we post transfer credit to their record (which happens containually throughout the year). Expected Graduation Dates in Banner are initially entered when a student’s record is created in Banner. Because the academic calendar is not finalized 4 years in advance, we default a date of May 1 with the appropriate year for incoming students – ex. this year we used 05/01/2010. As soon as the calendar is finalized we will correct the expected grad date in batch. We will review all students’ expected grad dates annually at the end o
