Hello All,

Many areas at UTSA receive calls/emails from students that recently graduated who are worried because their Degree Works shows their major as “undeclared” and no longer shows they are 100% complete. These changes occur when students are changed to non-degree seeking after being awarded their degree. To try and prevent these questions, we have made some changes to the information that displays to non-degree seeking students in Degree Works.

Summary of changes:

• Removed the “normal” information normally shown to students, such as residency policies and the core block, that don’t apply to a student not pursuing a degree
• Changed the block’s title from “Degree Undeclared” to “Non-degree Seeking Student”
• Added 2 items that will show for any non-degree seeking student:
• (1) Information on how to change to degree-seeking depending on if they are active/inactive and if they were ever admitted as degree-seeking previously.
• (2) A note on how to view graduate-level degree requirements in Degree Works if they have been admitted to a graduate program.
• Students with a post-bacc (PB) classification will also see a note informing them that students awarded a degree are changed to non-degree seeking status and that they should check their transcript to verify if a degree has been awarded previously.
• In the future, we may be able to have the note confirm if a degree has been awarded, but the language will be generic for now.
• Students will show 100% complete in the Requirements dial (since there are no requirements), but they will have “NaN%” in the Credits dial as no hours are required for a non-degree seeking student. This will still hopefully be an improvement since students would previously show as 95& complete.

A screenshot of the new block can be seen below. You can also view examples in Degree Works for @01919785/@00521097 (examples of PB classification) and @00100433/@01716599 (examples of non-PB classification).

Thank you to those that provided feedback on these changes, and please let us know if you run into any issues!

Matt D. Keneson

Senior Assistant Registrar

The University of Texas at San Antonio