2. B-On-Time Loan
• Forgiveness Requirements
– Graduate with cumulative GPA of 3.0, within:
• 4 calendar years after the date the student initially enrolled in an
eligible institution
• 5 calendar years after the date the student initially enrolled in an
eligible institution, if the degree is in architecture, engineering, or
any other program determined by the board to require more than
4 years to complete; or
• 2 calendar years after the date the student initially enrolled in a
public or private 2-year institution;
OR
• Graduated with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0, with a total
number of credit hours (including transfer hours and hours earned
exclusively by examination) that is no more than 6 hours beyond
what is required to complete the degree or certificate.
3. NCAA/DARS Testing
• Completed first phase of initial testing
• Working with David and Billi to fix issues and
will continue to test
• Goal is to reduce the need of the ‘yellow
sheets’ significantly
4. VA Updates
• Students MUST meet with a certifying official in the
Registrar’s Office after they register to get their
courses certified EACH semester they want to use their
VA educational benefits.
• All courses must count towards their degree to be
certified by the VA. The VA will not pay for electives or
anything outside the student’s degree plan.
• Students must turn in their official degree plan by the
start of their 3rd
semester to a certifying official.
• 3 Certifying Officials are located in the Registrar’s
Office and can be reached at 565-2112.
5. Excess Hours
• Excess Hours
– Email all questions or concerns to Lynn McCreary
and cc David Meek
6. Degree Audit Overview
• New Team Members
• New Procedures
• Degree Audit Products
• Transfer Guides and 4-Year Plans
• Transfer Articulation
• Other Initiatives
7. Degree Audit Team
• David Meek, Degree Audit Systems Manager
• Billi J. Gravely, Degree Audit Coordinator
• Indra Bhagat, Degree Audit Specialist
• Sabina Hernandez, Degree Audit Specialist
NEW
NEW
8. New Procedures
Encoding
• With approval from the Academic Deans, the
Degree Audit Team is now responsible for
encoding for all Colleges and Schools
• Changes made as they are approved by UCC
• Allows upcoming catalog requirements to be
ready in time for Early Eagle
9. New Procedures
DARwin Related Student Issues
• New email
– Common email address
– Received by the entire Degree Audit Team
– We will let everyone know when the email is ready
Reminder: Please indicate if an issue is of high importance (graduation,
financial aid, etc.) in the subject line of your email.
11. redLantern: u.select
• unt.transfer.org
• Formerly Course Applicability System (CAS)
• Interfaces with DARwin
• Students can enter their coursework and run it
against our degree requirements
• Students can view course equivalents
12. redLantern: u.achieve
• Latest version of DARwin (upgrade expected
at UNT in 2011)
• Main interface (‘client’) will be the same
initially
• Audits will be redesigned slightly
– Text & PDF output for every audit
– Some customization will be possible
• New technology in the background
13. redLantern: u.direct
• Formerly known as Degree Completion
Planner (DCP)
• Allows us to build a template of courses that
will fulfill requirements for a degree program
• Students can view the templates and plan
the courses they intend to take on a term-
by-term basis
• Work on this project will begin in 2011
14. Transfer Guides and 4 Year Plans
• Grant monies received to create Road Maps
– Hired two part-time workers this summer
• TCCNS driven guides
– Two stages
• UNT to TCCNS: Core, College, Major Requirements
• 4 year plan
• New website
19. Transfer Articulation
• Maintenance has been overdue
• Started updating this summer
• Priority is area feeder schools
• Eventually will include all Texas schools (2
year & 4 year, public & private)
20. Transfer Evaluation System (TES)
• Offered by CollegeSource
– UNT licensed this summer
• Uses extensive database of course
descriptions to find new equivalencies
• Routes and tracks the evaluation process
• Easier to manage
22. EIS/DARwin Consistency
• Majors need to match
• Why does it matter?
– NCAA reporting
– Financial Aid
– Excess hours
– College enrollment numbers
– Interactive Audit
23. EIS/DARwin Consistency
What we are doing:
• Periodically generate a report
• Clean up some discrepancies
What you can do:
• If a student changes majors, delete the old major
• Run ‘What-if’/‘Force’ audits for potential major
changers instead of adding the program in
DARwin
27. DARwin Tidbit
The TAV means average. It’s a result of two transfer courses (with different
grades) being equivalent to one course at UNT. If the two courses had the
same grade it would show TA, TB, TC, etc.
