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...Office of the Registrar has finally entered the Internet Age. With the introduction of online registration this year, the registrar has eliminated the old registration process, a process which was costly and unnecessarily aggravating. And while there is more the registrar can and should do, the office should be commended for establishing online registration...
When Barry Kane came to the Office of the Registrar, he promised to start online registration here, as he did at Yale a few years ago. The transition makes sense for several reasons. First, online registration is much more cost-effective than in-person registration. Online registration eliminates the expense of paying for retired teachers and others to oversee the process; it also gets rid of the high cost of paying workers to stuff almost 10,000 envelopes, and saves those same people from the extreme tedium of such a task...
...online system, students must still print out study cards to get professors’ signatures for the classes requiring them. If students subsequently change their schedule, they must print out another card and collect the signatures again. This problem could easily be remedied. Instead of requiring signatures, the registrar should instead create a website allowing professors to approve students to take their classes...
...There’s no substitute for sitting down with your adviser and having a conversation,” said Daria Vanderveer, an associate registrar at Yale who also advises freshmen. “I don’t know that I would want to pass up the chance to sit down and talk to them, as convenient as it would...
This change has been enacted to “better reflect the FAS privacy policy,” according to Paige Duncan, information technology team leader for the Registrar...