Since our 2006 report, several of Florida's universities have taken steps to improve or implement automated systems that monitor students' progress toward degrees.

• The University of South Florida has developed the capacity to place an automatic hold on students' registrations if they do not make sufficient progress toward their chosen degrees.
• Florida International University is developing a new student degree tracking system, GradXpress, which is scheduled to be implemented in spring 2009. The system will allow students to plan and register for courses in advance, track progress toward their degrees, and view their progress in a web-based environment.
• The University of Central Florida is creating a new degree audit and a new student tracking system. It plans to implement the degree audit system in spring 2009, while the student tracking system's implementation date remains uncertain.
• Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University is planning to implement an enhanced automated student advising/tracking system in late summer of 2009 that replaces and reconfigures the advising system the university was using.