Electronic voting has enhanced participation in student elections and has strengthened the student voice in the governance process. No longer a curiosity, electronic voting is now the assumed method for campus elections. Responding to frustration from colleges and departments over methods for dealing with transfer credit, TCSS was implemented to allow ease of data entry, provide a data repository, and web access to information, none of which was available with the old methods for producing transfer credit summaries. TCSS has reduced greatly the number of paper copies of summaries. Admissions personnel are able to enter course-specific information via the web and update that information at any time during a student's academic career.
Advisers access both preliminary and final transfer credit information.
Students now receive a revised paper version of the transfer credit summaries and have access to final credit summaries and updates via the web. The information provided is more complete and allows for better advising and enrollment of new and continuing students. Students can search for classes by discipline, by location, by term, by time of day, and by several other criteria. This data will soon be enhanced with official catalog text that describes each of the classes returned from a search. SOCWeb represents a continuing enhancement of services delivered by UCSC via the World Wide Web in response to student needs.