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A new survey by the Washington, D.C.-based New America think tank into Americans’ attitudes about higher educations featured a special profile of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Visual Experience Transcript. 

The Varying Degrees 2018 report by New America offered insights into what Americans think about the role that higher education plays in economic opportunities, what they think about their local colleges and universities, whether change is needed in higher ed and other topics. This year, the annual survey paid particular attention to North Carolina, with an oversampling of the state’s residents, and provided an institutional profile of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. 

The profile focused on the steps that ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ has taken to expand its ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Transcripts, with a particular focus on the role that Registrar Rodney Parks and his staff have played in transforming the experiential transcript by merging it with a student’s academic transcript to create a digital, visual overview of a student’s college career. 

From the profile: 

Today, 2,000 students per year—over a third of the university’s annual transcript production—request ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Visual Experience Transcript (Visual EXP). Today, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Visual EXP is requested by 2,000 students per year, over a third of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s annual transcript production. Putting each transcript together is a true team effort, with several departments (including the university’s service learning and community engagement, research, career services, and student affairs offices) collecting, validating, and submitting more detail on co-curricular experiences than the original EET did. The Visual EXP has made ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ one of the pioneers in the “beyond the transcript” space. 

The overview of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s innovative approach tied into the survey results by offering up the university as an example of an institution taking steps to demonstrate the education it provides is an investment that is worth its cost. 

“The students themselves appreciate the ability to tell their full ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ story,” Parks told New America. “The students themselves appreciate the ability to tell their full ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ story. … [They] have been real vocal about telling us that we should be capturing even more than we’re capturing.”

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