From Edupage Nov 10, 1999, Educause's (www.educause.edu)
news service:
> SMART SOFTWARE LETS UNIVERSITIES OFFER SELF SERVICE DEGREE
> INFORMATION
> In a move that indicates the increasingly "student-centered"
> approach many colleges and universities are adopting, Notre Dame
> University's new online student grade and degree requirement
> auditing system promises to be a boon for students and faculty
> alike.  The audit program, called DegreeWorks and developed by
> Software Research Northwest, provides faculty a user-friendly
> listing of a student's completed coursework, degree requirements
> still to be met, and his or her GPA.  Administrators are seeking
> to involve professors more in the academic advisement process and
> remove the mystery from fulfilling degree requirements.  Once the
> system is working smoothly, students will be given direct access
> to the system as well.  Among other things, the program can
> calculate a student's GPA and provide hypothetical degree
> requirements if the student is contemplating a switch in majors.
> The respective academic dean is still the final arbiter of which
> degree requirements have been fulfilled, not the audit software.
> (Chronicle of Higher Education Online 11/09/99)

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