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MIT Data Warehouse WTW ACADEMIC TERM Table


Academic term information for the Who-is-Teaching-What data.


Field Name

Description

Data Type

Length

ACADEMIC_YEAR

Academic year

VARCHAR2

4

ACADEMIC_YEAR_DESC

Descriptive text of the academic year

VARCHAR2

30

IS_CURRENT_TERM

Y=This is the current academic term

VARCHAR2

1

TERM_CODE

** For FINANCIAL DATA: the Term Code identifies the status of the cost collector. Blank - open for charges between start and end dates. Term Code = 1 - Closed. Pre-end date charges allowed. Term Code = 2 - No longer in use. Term Code = 3 - Terminated. Charges not allowed. ** For STUDENT DATA: the Term Code identifies one of the terms in an academic year; for example: 1999FA==>Fall Term of the 1998-99 academic year, and 1999SP==>Spring Term of the 1998-99 academic year.

VARCHAR2

6

TERM_DESCRIPTION

Long text associated with the TERM_CODE for STUDENT data (Example: Fall 1996, Spring 1997.)

VARCHAR2

30

TERM_END_DATE

The end date of the academic term.

DATE

8

TERM_SELECTOR

This field concatenates the academic term code (eg. 2011FA) and the descriptive text (eg. Fall Term 2010-2011) into one string (eg. 2011FA-Fall Term 2010-2011) for easier selections of academic term.

VARCHAR2

37

TERM_START_DATE

The begin date of the academic term.

DATE

8

WAREHOUSE_LOAD_DATE

The date the record was loaded into the Data Warehouse from the source system.

DATE

8

WTW_ACADEMIC_TERM_KEY

Use this field to join together tables WTW_TEACHING_DETAIL and WTW_ACADEMIC_TERM to get the academic term information for the teaching data.

VARCHAR2

6