by BECKY BUSH
Intern News Reporter

The university is exploring a possible online degree audit program to give students one-stop access to courses given at Appalachian State University.

The program would put automatic reports together for students, which would tell them how far along they are in their degree, Registrar Rose Reinhart said.

Reinhart said the program shows students what courses they must finish before they graduate and provides grade point average and various educational information.

In addition, the program allows students to switch around their courses and majors, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs David P. Haney said.

“The degree audit program shows ‘what-if’ scenarios, which shows you what you would have to do to switch your major,” Haney said. “It shows you how your courses you’ve taken will work with another major.”

The program helps determine what a student has left to do, junior finance and banking major and Student Government Association Director of Academic Affairs P.A. Rowe said.

Rowe said SGA is writing a piece of legislation stating the reason they want the program, which will be voted on Tuesday during the Student Senate meeting.

Last week, several people working on the program met to discuss a particular software called DegreeWorks, which provides a comprehensive set of Web-based academic advising, degree audit and transfer articulation tools.

“We haven’t made decision yet on which software we’re going to use,” Reinhart said. “We’re looking at a number of different software.”
Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management Susan Davies said the program will not be fully enacted for at least two years, because they have to identify appropriate software, purchase the product, look at all the background work and then share the program with students.

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