The report by the Washington, D.C.-based New America think tank featured an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ's innovative approach to more fully describing the broad experiences of its graduates.
A new survey by the Washington, D.C.-based New America think tank into Americans’ attitudes about higher educations featured a special profile of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Visual Experience Transcript.
The profile focused on the steps that Â鶹ÊÓƵ has taken to expand its Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Visual Experience Transcript (Visual EXP). Today, Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Visual EXP is requested by 2,000 students per year, over a third of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ one of the pioneers in the “beyond the transcript” space.
The overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ story,” Parks told New America. “The students themselves appreciate the ability to tell their full Â鶹ÊÓƵ story. … [They] have been real vocal about telling us that we should be capturing even more than we’re capturing.”
Read the entire profile of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s efforts . New America’s survey coverage by , and other media outlets.