1.	The presence of LOW-VALUES in data fields causes significant problems for several institutions in the receipt of student records. A transaction will be rejected if non-displayable characters are sent in the data unless found in Filler Reserved for Local Use. Please use some other appropriate character (e.g., SPACES) with which to initialize your records before sending them.
2.	Items 11 and 12, although not required, are all fields which can be used in the translation of the FASTER format to the SPEEDE format. If your institution can supply any or all of these fields, the SPEEDE transcript produced from the translation will be more complete. Also, when receiving a transcript from a SPEEDE institution, these fields may supply you with information useful in admissions and placement.
3.	Special characters, tilde (~), caret (^), and grave accent (`), are used as delimiters in the translation of FASTER to SPEEDE/ExPRESS. They are reserved symbols and as such cannot be included in data sent through FASTER to a SPEEDE/ExPRESS institution.
4.	A new field, Institution Code Qualifier, item 4a, has been added to provide a code that describes the kind of Institution Code, item 5. The definitions of Institution Code and Institution Name, item 9, have been modified to describe the items more accurately.
5.	Eight bytes of filler have been added after the Institution Code, item 5.
6.	Notes have been added to the definition of Beginning Date, item 6, and Ending Date, item 7, stating that zeroes are valid in the month and/or day if the sending institution is a SPEEDE/ExPRESS institution or the term record is from an institution other than the sending institution.
7.	The size of Term Description, item 8, has been increased from 10 to 60 bytes.
8.	Type of Session, item 13, and Grade/Academic Level of Student, item 14, have been added to house SPEEDE/ExPRESS information.
9.	The size of Filler, item 16, has been decreased from 870 to 807 bytes.

Field Characteristics: A = Alphabetic only A/N = Alphameric N = Numeric only Z = Zoned numeric P = Packed decimal R = Right justified with leading zeros L = Left justified				Format Characteristics: Name: 2002-2003 Term Header Record for Postsecondary Transcript Number: P02 Effective Date: November 24, 2002 Record Size: 1020
1	1-3	3	A/N	Record Type* The record type for this transaction. The value will always be "P02".
2	4-13	10	A/N/L	Social Security Number* The student's social security number
	4-12	9	N	Social Security Number
	13-13	1	A/N	Filler
3	14-19	6	N	Term Designator* This is a six digit code that designates the term. The first four digits indicate the year in which the term began. The last two digits designate the month in which the term began. For example, a term which began in January 1987 would have a term designator of 198701. If an institution felt that all courses which began in January, February or March of 1987 should be considered in the same term, they could designate all these courses with the same term designator of 198701. Format: YYYYMM
4	20-20	1	N	Term Tag Number* This is a sequential number assigned to this header record. This same number will be assigned to all course records to follow this header. If a remark segment is to be associated with this header, it will bear the same number. This number will normally be 0 if there is only one header for each term designator. If there are multiple term headers for each term designator, this will allow for it and will keep the courses together with the appropriate header.
4a	21-22	2	A/N	Institution Code Qualifier* This code identifies the type of number sent in Institution Code. Code Definition 73 FICE Code OP OPEID Code ZZ Unknown
5	21-27 23-29	7	A/N	Institution Code* This is the FICE Code Number of the institution which awarded the credit in the course segments which follow. If the code of the institution does not exist or is not known, use 9999999. Use 9999999 if the credit was not from another institution, such as Advanced Placement or CLEP credit. This is the FICE Code or OPEID code (see Appendix B) of the institution from which the credit was received. If the code of the institution does not exist or is not known, a default value of 999999 should be sent with a value of "ZZ" in Institution Code Qualifier, item 4a. The first field on the OPEID file contains the institution number of eight bytes, the last two of which are the campus number. For this application, use bytes 1-6, right justified, zero filled.
5a	30-37	8	A/N	Filler
6	28-35 38-45	8	N	Beginning Date* This is the date of the beginning of the term. It is intended to be the date that all the classes under this header began. Format: MMDDYYYY If this exact date is not available, the year and month may be taken from the date indicated in the Term Designator (Item 3), above. The day may be chosen arbitrarily, as long as it is a valid day for that month. Placing zeroes here indicates that the Beginning Date is unknown. NOTE: Zeroes are valid in month and/or day if the sending institution is a SPEEDE/ExPRESS institution or the term record is from an institution other than the sending institution.
7	36-43 46-53	8	N	Ending Date* This is the date of the end of the term. All zeroes for the Ending Date indicate that this date is unknown. Format: MMDDYYYY NOTE: Zeroes are valid in month and/or day if the sending institution is a SPEEDE/ExPRESS institution or the term record is from an institution other than the sending institution.
8	44-53 54-113	10 60	A/N/L	Term Description This is a free form description of the term (for example, "FALL 87-88", "WNTR 87-88", "SUMR 85-86", etc.).
9	54-83 114-143	30	A/N/L	Institution Name This is the name and address of the institution from which the credit was received. if no FICE code or OPEID was available. For example, UNIV OF THE ANDES, CHILE. It should always be used if Item 5 above does not contain a FICE or IPEDS Number. NOTE: This field is required if the transcript is sent to a SPEEDE/ExPRESS institution and no valid Institution Code is sent.
10	84-84 144-144	1	A/N	Filler
11	85-106 145-166	22	A/N	Curriculum Code A code identifying the program in which the student was enrolled.
	85-86 145-146	2	A/N	Curriculum Code Qualifier The code set used to identify the Curriculum Code. Code Definition 81 Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) coding structure. 82 Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) coding structure. CA Canadian College Course Codes CC Canadian University Curriculum Codes
	87-106 147-166	20	A/N	Curriculum Code Examples: Qualifier Code Program 81 1301.01 General Education (the decimal is transmitted as part of the value in this case) 82 0909 Electrical Engineering
12	107-141 167-201	35	A/N	Curriculum Code Name The name of the program in which the student was enrolled.
13	202-202	1	A/N	Type of Session Code identifying the type of academic session at an educational institution. Code Definition 1 Full Year 2 Semester 3 Trimester 4 Quarter 5 Quinmester 6 Mini-term 7 Summer Session 8 Intersession (Year Round Schools) 9 Long session which is longer than a semester or quarter or trimester but shorter than a full year.
14	203-204	2	A/N	Grade/Academic Level of Student This Session Code identifying the grade level or academic level of the student for this session. This does not refer to the level of the courses taken. Code Name 20 Non-degree or Temporary Undergraduate in Postsecondary School 21 Postsecondary First Year Student 22 Postsecondary Sophomore 23 Postsecondary Junior 24 Postsecondary Senior 25 Postsecondary Post-Baccalaureate Student 26 Postsecondary Non-Degree Graduate Student 27 Postsecondary Professional Student 28 Postsecondary Master's Degree Student 29 Postsecondary Doctoral Student 30 Postdoctoral Student 31 Postsecondary Bachelor Preliminary Year 32 Postsecondary Fifth Year Student 33 Postsecondary Masters Qualifying Year AD Adult PF Professional UN Ungraded
13 15	142 205-1011	870 807	A/N	Filler
14 16	1012-1020	9	A/N	Filler Reserved for Local Use