As an academic advisor or administrator, you are all too familiar with the challenges of keeping track of ever-changing degree requirements. Whether you are advising students across multiple catalog years, handling students with different majors, or managing curriculum updates each year, the complexities can quickly become overwhelming.

That's where FlightPath comes in—a powerful tool designed to simplify advising & planning, ensure accuracy, and improve the advising experience for both students and advisors.

The Challenge: Multiple Catalog Years and/or Majors

One of the most common hurdles advisors face is working with students from various catalog years. Degree requirements change over time, and it’s easy for advisors to lose track of what specific courses a student needs to complete to graduate. When students switch majors, minors, concentrations, or add a double major, this challenge is on compounds the confusion and complexity.

Many advisors handle a large number of students, each with unique academic paths, which creates a high potential for human error. Missing a single requirement which a student needs to complete could delay their graduation, causing not just stress, but even potential liability.

FlightPath: Streamlining the Advising Process

FlightPath is designed to help academic advisors navigate these complexities with ease. By providing a comprehensive and user-friendly system for tracking each student’s progress, FlightPath ensures that advisors can always see the most up-to-date, accurate requirements for graduation. Here’s how FlightPath addresses some of the most pressing challenges in academic advising:

1. Tracking Multiple Catalog Years
   As advisors, you may be guiding students from different catalog years, each with its own set of degree requirements. FlightPath eliminates the confusion by automatically adjusting the requirements based on the student’s catalog year. No more manually sifting through outdated spreadsheets or catalogs to ensure the correct courses are listed.

2. Managing Multiple Majors, Minors, and Concentrations
   Many students change their academic paths over time, switching majors, adding minors, or even pursuing double degrees. These changes can significantly alter the requirements they need to meet. FlightPath makes it easy to track these shifts by adjusting the student’s degree plan in real time. When a student changes their major or adds a concentration, FlightPath seamlessly updates their academic plan to reflect the new requirements.

3. Reduces Human Error
   Keeping track of complex degree requirements can lead to mistakes—whether it’s overlooking a specific course requirement or misinterpreting the course sequencing, prerequisites, etc. With FlightPath, advisors no longer need to rely on memory or manual checks to ensure a student is meeting all their requirements.

4. Keeps Advisors and Students on the Same Page
   FlightPath makes the lives of both advisors and students easier by providing a clear and transparent view of the academic plan. Students can see exactly what courses they need to take and when, making the advising process more efficient and less confusing. Advisors can also track student progress in real-time, ensuring that everyone is on the same page and that there are no surprises when it comes to meeting graduation requirements.

5. Secures Advising History for Easy Transition
   Advisors come and go, and students sometimes switch majors or need to change advisors for other reasons. In these cases, having a secure record of the student’s academic advising history is essential. FlightPath stores all advising notes, communications, and degree progress in one easily accessible system. This ensures that no information is lost when an advisor transitions out or a student changes majors. A new advisor can immediately pick up where the previous one left off.

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