Student Administrative System

SMU is the academic home to more than 11,000 students. SMU’s enrollment includes more than 800 students from 92 foreign countries, in addition to students from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Academic Advisement

Academic Advisement (AA) is the module within PeopleSoft Student Administration that is used to track the requirements and regulations that a student must satisfy in order to graduate. As a student progresses towards graduation, Academic Advisement analyzes those courses completed (both successfully and unsuccessfully) by the student and ascertains what requirements are still outstanding. This task is accomplished at SMU by use of the Degree Progress Report (DPR), which audits all of the requirements necessary for each individual student’s graduation as set up by the Deans of the various schools. Currently the students, the Deans Offices, the academic departments and the academic advisors can run the Degree Progress Reports.

The AA module team is comprised of Monica Cordero (Module Lead), Pam Fincher, Darrah Rippy, Leslie Day, and Joe Papari. The AA module team goal is to keep the AA module functioning properly within the integrated Student Administrative System and to produce an accurate DPR. To accomplish its goal, the AA module team will setup the requested requirement changes and troubleshoot any reported problems.

Since AA Module must accommodate the varying needs of the individual schools, the Academic Advisement Technology Committee (AATC) has been established in order to provide appropriate representation. This committee is chaired by Janet Stephens and includes a representative from each of the undergraduate disciplines - Barbara Mohrle (Cox School of Business) Rob Pocklington (Dedman College I), Jennifer Haden (Dedman College II), Betsy Willis (Lyle School of Engineering), Chuck Donaldson (Meadows School of the Arts), and Kathryn Barrett (Simmons School of Education and Human Development). The AATC's goal is to assist the AA module team in accomplishing its mission by providing degree program setup requests for new and updated plans, troubleshooting and reporting problems and issues that arise, and presenting comments and suggestions on the Degree Progress Report (DPR).

Undergraduate DPR
    Student Requesting an eDPR
    Advisor/Faculty Requesting an eDPR
    Understanding the Undergraduate Degree Progress Report (.pdf)

Graduate DPR
Student Requesting an eGDPR
    Advisor/Faculty Requesting an eGDPR
    Understanding the Graduate Degree Progress Report (.pdf)

AA Policies & Procedures