Company: CollegeSource, San Diego, CA
Company Description: CollegeSource is the higher education industry’s trusted provider of transfer and degree achievement solutions. For nearly 50 years, CollegeSource has led market-changing transformation by inventing and investing in technology solutions that aid the staff and students of higher education in their quest to plan and complete academic careers. As the archiver of the nation’s extensive higher educatio
Nomination Category: Product & Service Categories - Education & Education Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: Postsecondary Enterprise Solution
 Nomination Title: uAchieve® Degree Audit
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
The most recent update of uAchieve was version 4.5.4.3 in December 2020. A major release, version 5.0, is scheduled for release in late 2022.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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uAchieve is an online degree audit system that allows students and advisors to track progress toward degree completion while highlighting the remaining courses and requirements needed to graduate. As a hosted solution, uAchieve ensures that both students and the institution have accurate, complete and personalized information to achieve their educational goals in a more stable, secure and cost-friendly environment.
Designed with degree completion in mind, uAchieve includes features for students, advisors and administrative staff to track progress through browser access and an easy-to-digest display with audit details showing any remaining degree requirements; multiple “what-if” audit features to see how courses taken match other degree programs; communication with students regarding progress directly in the application; early warnings and analytics with batch audit processing and an internal report library; and reliable access that guarantees 99.99% uptime and requires minimal involvement of campus IT staff.
What sets uAchieve apart is the ability to handle unique programs with special circumstances, including:
- Any combination of multiple/dual degrees, majors, minors, concentrations, etc.
- Advanced logic for repeated, retaken and reused courses
- Test scores and other non-course requirements from any student information system or data source
- Basic to advanced exceptions, substitutions and waivers directly in the audit
- Financial aid and athletic eligibility tracking specific to an institution’s policies on a student-by-student basis
- Articulation rules to convert transfer work into home equivalencies and display on the audit
uAchieve accommodates even the most challenging needs by utilizing real-time integration with any student information system; a flexible range of GPA calculations to include cumulative totals, progress toward a degree and discrete college and major computations consisting of pass/fail, residency, transfer and other restrictions; fluid course-requirement matching, engineered to continually process for “best fit,” plus special options for managing overlapping course lists.
uAchieve utilizes all relevant student data and facilitates multiple majors, minors, concentrations and other supplemental information. It also allows students to quickly view how their courses match alternate degree programs, which is particularly helpful for community college students who may be contemplating a degree change due to shifting life circumstances.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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In the past 12 months, CollegeSource has doubled the number of clients migrating to the uAchieve cloud in addition to the consistent addition of new schools subscribing to uAchieve. Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico and Ozarks Technology Community College in Springfield, Missouri, are among a few that recently implemented the uAcheive platform to automate various aspects of degree auditing and academic planning. Through “tailored reports” that outline student progress, along with “robust transfer articulation,” advisers can ensure students have selected their most direct route to graduation.
For Ozarks Technology Community College, the new platform allows the college to shift credits around to meet Missouri’s requirement that students not have any excess credit hours, limiting unnecessary course enrollment.
Client Testimonial: “uAchieve degree audit will allow us to break up both a transfer and a native course and use those credit hours to meet more than one requirement. I’m hoping our total month per credit hours to graduate will decrease. Now instead of removing all barriers, we’re moving to more intentional support. We really feel like a better degree audit system is one of those intentional supports we need to provide our students.” - Scott Fiedler, registrar and director of admissions, Ozark Technology Community College.
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
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https://www.collegesource.com/03/03/2021/collegesource-steps-up-to-meet-increased-community-college-demand-keeping-students-on-path-to-graduation-with-uachieve-degree-audit-solution/
https://www.ccdaily.com/2020/06/where-credit-is-due/
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