Outcome-Driven Innovations with the Degree Audit

For many higher education institutions, certifying degree completion is both challenging and time consuming. Depending on the size of the institution, graduation processing can take multiple staff days to complete. In an age of limited staffing, registrars must leverage technology to handle these in...

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Published in:College and university 2020-11, Vol.95 (4), p.51-52
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Advisors
Audits
Audits (Verification)
Automation
Awards & honors
College Seniors
Compliance
Degree Requirements
Electronic mail systems
Graduation
Graduation Requirements
Higher education
Innovations
Program Improvement
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Technology Uses in Education
University students
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description For many higher education institutions, certifying degree completion is both challenging and time consuming. Depending on the size of the institution, graduation processing can take multiple staff days to complete. In an age of limited staffing, registrars must leverage technology to handle these increasing workloads. Such was the case with a registrar's office at an university in North Carolina. Plagued with a complex curriculum, a poorly programmed degree audit mostly ignored due to its inaccuracies, unapologetically manual processes, and vast amounts of institutional knowledge existing solely in the minds of staff nearing retirement, the university's graduation process was in need of an overhaul. This article describes the problems with the process and what the university did to improve it.
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Audits
Audits (Verification)
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Awards & honors
College Seniors
Compliance
Degree Requirements
Electronic mail systems
Graduation
Graduation Requirements
Higher education
Innovations
Program Improvement
Registrars (School)
Registration
Technology Uses in Education
University students
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