Word: registrar
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...Registrar's Office has had a tough time keeping step with the march of technology recently...
...current Harvard Educational Records System (HERS) consumes time and energy unnecessarily in the face of the computer age, FAS officials say. At present, departments submit course catalog entries on paper, then officials in the Registrar's Office retype the data...
This routine inherently engenders mistakes, even though former Registrar and current Associate Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach notes that "there is no tolerance for error in the Registrar's Office...
Until the early nineties, the Registrar's entire staff entered study card information by hand into its computer system. The laborious process was replaced by computer-read bubble forms, according to Herschbach. HERS then spent hours--into the early morning--slowly churning out data reports...
While the Registrar has migrated its information onto faster Unix servers over the past two decades, accessing stored data still requires highly-specialized knowledge...