Word: registrar
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Recently I received a letter from the Office of the Registrar informing me that "an error in your entry of the catalogue number for Slavic 101" had occurred and that "we still must charge the $15 fee for processing this correction...
Clearly some other reason compels the Office to charge undergraduates this fee. I won't suggest that profit is a reason, although I would respectfully suggest that the Registrar's Office will suffer a severe image problem when it becomes known that it makes $2000 to $3000 each semester from the mistakes of an unfortunate 100 to 200 students. I would guess then that the rationale behind charging students this fee is that you hope to discourage students from making errors which would complicate the process of registration...
...shape behavior through use of financial disincentives. To a certain extent, we students are a captive population. The University can fine use for a variety of things which make running the college more difficult. However, the fact remains that we pay for our education. The students pay the Registrar's salary and the ultimate purpose of the Office of the Registrar is to serve the students' educational needs. If a students makes a trivial mistake which costs nothing to correct, they have a right to expect service. I knew, these are strong words, but to students who so often must...
...have yet to be physically joined, the two museums operate as a single entity, with a single director and a unified program. Each contains galleries for the general public, storerooms for art works not on display, a library, classrooms, and faculty offices. Most Museum service departments, such as Photography, Registrar, and Carpentry, are in the Sackler...
Librarians continue to face a space crunch, according to a member of the library staff who asked not to identified. The registrar's office and the food service, Soupcon, apparently took away needed storage space from the library...