StarNet enables advisors to assist students in planning and navigating their collegiate careers. The system was designed to create and maintain student advising records beginning with students' enrollment and continuing through graduation. Most of the student information that an advisor needs resides on a Sybase SQL Server. Other data such as GradPact information, intended majors, and demographics reside on the university's mainframe. Advisors see the combined data presented in a seamless format.
Advisors can add information to, and pull information from, the system during an advising session.
The system provides a way for students to change majors during an advising session without having to visit the Office of the Registrar. It also provides a way for advisors to provide students with accurate and consistent information, and to document the advice they give to students. This consistent information tracking aids advisors in helping keep the GradPact promise of graduation in four years or 128 hours. By being able to track the curriculum set for a student and the advice given them, advisors can accurately prescribe the fastest track to graduation. StarNet also includes a data warehousing tool to gather and report statistics.