The RFP response from Decision Academic Graphics was mailed out to the Degree Audit Committee on Wednesday, April 8 th . The earliest time line for DAG was discussed. The database could possibly be ready by the end of June. Some faculties could be ready by December, but this is fairly aggressive. Some depend on degree audit for advising, some use their own advising tool.
Large faculties rely on it heavily.
PACE is still on the list for conversion, but if it does not work we may have to look at bringing in the new system earlier. A memo has been sent to purchasing justifying our decision and requesting a PO for purchase of Schedule Expert from Strathmann and Associates. An analysis of whether to go to fixed exams was carried out last fall. The outcome of the analysis was to continue as we are doing but try to get the schedule out earlier. David and Neil would like to review up front exams.