New and Updated Reports

There are four new certified reports available in the Completions release.

E7. 1) Completed Areas of Study in Selected Academic Year
This report is designed to show students who completed a degree within the selected academic year and to return all areas of study completed. This report will return a record for each student/area of study combination (e.g., an undergraduate who completes two majors and one minor will show three rows – one for each area of study). [6/24/25]

E7. 2) Completions by Student in Selected Academic Year
This report is designed to show students who completed a degree within the selected academic year. Primary, Second, and Third graduation program can be displayed on the same line, allowing a one record per student/graduation term display. [6/24/25]

E7. 3) 5-Year Trend of Area of Study Completions
This report allows the user to select up to 5 years of completions with area of study detail to show completion trends over time. The trends can be broken out by demographic and graduation-related attributes, including Graduation Enrollment Career, Graduation Program Degree, and Graduation Area of Study. [6/24/25]

A2. 4) Current Cycle Point in Time Comparison
This report is designed to allow you to build a custom graduate admissions report comparing today to the equivalent point in time in the prior year and the prior final snapshot. You will be limited to one graduate application college, but you can customize the attributes and metrics included in the report. And this report allows you to view summer and fall entry terms combined! [6/24/25]

ADW Repoint to MyBU Student / Campus Solutions: FAQs

Since the formal launch of the SIS Renewal program and during the background process of repointing ADW to the new system, ADW clients have reached out with questions that remain relevant during and after deployment. We have answered a few common questions below.

What does a new SIS implementation mean for ADW?

SIS impacts ADW as a change to the source where ADW pulls much of its Student Information from. The ADW team has worked within the SIS program to ensure ADW continues to access the same information, only from Campus Solutions instead of UIS. This effort has been known as the ADW repoint. We are now live with our first release impacting the admissions module of ADW.

MyBU Student/Campus Solutions is live! When will I see updated ADW reports?

The ADW team is working hard to update our warehouse for the new system; however, we were not able to release all updates concurrent with the new system go-live in May 2024. Here’s what to expect:

    • We have already released updated admissions, student registration and demographics, course and class, and now completions reports.
    • We have two more major releases in our roadmap:
      • Undergraduate Cohort Retention and Graduation Rate Reporting – planned for late summer 2025
      • Financial Aid – release timing TBD
      • We are going live with updates to all existing certified enrollment and crossover reports to accommodate the system changes. If there are gaps in our service offerings or you would like a new report/dashboard created, please contact us at asirhelp@bu.edu.

    Will non-certified reports I was using before the repoint still work after deployment?

    Efforts have been made to make sure the repoint will be as seamless as possible from the user’s perspective. In many cases reports should continue running as expected, but some reports may require minor changes to produce data or produce data in the expected format. If you have reports saved into your My Reports folder, you may need to replace them using the new certified reports. Reach out to asirhelp@bu.edu with any questions you have.

    Will data points and attributes I’m used to using or seeing still be available after the repoint?

    At the very least, they will be available historically up until a certain historical academic semester. Some concepts that are relevant historically but no longer exist will be populated with an unknown or question mark after a certain date. Other concepts like major, will have history migrated, but will also be populated going forward based on a MyBU Student methodology (derived from plan and subplan). Finally, there are some new concepts that we couldn’t populate historically, so those will only be populated based on MyBU Student go-live going forward.

    Is ADW still a central data resource?

    Yes, ADW is and will remain a central data resource, with the same or equivalent reporting functionalities for all clients. If something you need is missing, please reach out to asirhelp@bu.edu.

    What main changes should I expect to see?

    MyBU Student comes with its own data elements and labels, and with the new source, ADW reports include both new and changes descriptions, terms, and format. We are expecting that the shift in the way data is represented to be largely intuitive but are supporting users with an updated Certified Report Catalog, crosswalks, and tutorials to prevent confusion any changes may produce.

    We have also implemented the new Academic Data Warehouse Retention Policy. This means that you will see all snapshots for the current cycle and past three years, but we have kept only census snapshots (Official Mid-Semester and Official Final) for years before that. We will continue to cull snapshots annually in alignment with this policy.