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...that’s exactly the way it should be, says Barry S. Kane, the new registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Kane learned this lesson at Yale, where he recently completed six years as registrar. During that time, he oversaw Yale’s rocky transition to a new database for student records. Kane took the brunt of the criticism fired at his office for glitches in the system that led to such debacles as lost transcripts and “disappearing” students...
...Kane says those experiences taught him much about the difficulties of updating the information systems of a major college and that he looks forward to applying this knowledge to his new job at Harvard, where he will complete the College’s conversion to a new student records database. The new system will enable the registrar’s office to develop software to streamline exam scheduling, classroom assignments and grade and transcript processing...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, who had the final say in Kane’s appointment, has said that he wants the Harvard Educational Resource System (HERS2) in place by the end of the year. He requested that Kane and his colleagues draw up a plan for the implementation of the custom-made database...
...Kane says he expects things to run more smoothly at Harvard, where the registrar’s office boasts a considerably larger staff and its own technical support personnel...