Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: News

Recently, NSU released a new program called the Self-Service Curriculum Advising and Program Planning Degree Evaluation. Available only for undergraduate students, the program "compares your completed coursework with program degree requirements published in the college catalog."

Advisers are known as the go-to people when students are having trouble signing up for or dropping classes or understanding their curriculum. If that is the only reason students visit their advisers, could the CAPP possibly replace them?

For those who have received e-mails about the new CAPP service, it clearly states that it is not meant to replace your interaction with an adviser because it is not an official evaluation of your coursework.

Furthermore, students who have a minor or are double majoring will encounter problems with their CAPP evaluations because the system is unable to read "outside the box." Your adviser can enter the system and fix it accordingly.

When asked about the CAPP possibly replacing the work of an adviser, Ashley Haskins, undergraduate advisor for the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business & Entrepreneurship, said, "It has great potential as a student tool, providing academic planning and creating more available time for the advisers to build up on academic counseling and relationships." This can mean less time talking about requirements and more time aiding in other academic concerns that advisers are trained to do.

If students see anything questionable about their CAPP evaluations, they should contact their advisers in an effort to tweak the new system and make it more effective. Since the CAPP system is still new, reporting these problems earlier on will ensure that students are able to use it to their advantage as much as possible.

To access the CAPP evaluation, log in to Sharklink and click on the Transcripts/Grades/CAPP Degree Evaluations link, where credits taken up to date, requirements that are left, overall GPA, and much more can be seen to assist in academic decisions.

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