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Through 2019, all the forms in the Registrar's Office at the University of Northwestern, St. Paul were paper based, or in some cases, fillable PDFs. Student could either print them out and bring them to the office once they were completed or come by the office to pick one up, said Registrar Andy Simpson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When Robert "Bobby" Lothringer joined Texas Woman's University in September 2011, he was the fifth University Registrar in a two‐year span. His immediate predecessors had held the position in an interim capacity. As a result, Lothringer's first year at TWU was dedicated to what he described as "putting out fires," including establishing a chain of command in his department, developing and adopting an official university policy for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, implementing electronic transcript ordering, and replacing paper tickets with electronic ticketing for graduations. Then, he turned his attention to TWU's degree‐audit system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When Joe Hickman became registrar at the University of Montana about four‐and‐a‐half years ago, the office relied heavily on paper processes. Many of the staff members spent their days printing out transcripts and processing paper forms. And the paper processes were inconvenient for students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a court case wherein the Connecticut's Appellate Court supported the judgment of a trial court on the claim of Matthew Coster and the punitive damages against Cristina Duquette for plagiarizing the final examination paper of Coster. It states that Coster filed suit which claims that Duquette was responsible for conversion and civil theft. It adds that the panel supported the trial court's ruling that Duquette acted with reckless indifference to Coster's rights.

The article offers information on the advantages of using paper diploma tubes to educational institutions. According to Jim Rose, vice president of sales at Jonesville Paper Tube Corp., the tubes have several advantages over other methods of presenting and mailing diplomas. It can save money in purchase price and mailing costs compared with flat envelopes or padded diploma covers. They are also more likely to arrive in the mail undamaged.

Receiving a paper diploma is a centuries‐old tradition. But what if that tradition no longer serves much of a purpose beyond contributing to the pomp and circumstance of graduation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on papers with security features to protect college transcripts and diplomas. It states that institutions should make use of papers with multiple security features for easy verification of authentic and fake documents. A comparison of security features offered by printing services such as Data Tech Services Inc., Protected Paper, and Scrip-Safe International is offered. Also included are the different security features that deter document reproduction, such as true watermarks, holograms and microprinting.

When Margo Landy, Ph.D., became University Registrar at San Francisco State University in fall 2019, the graduation evaluation process was paper based, and it took at least two to three months to award degrees after end of term processing. The university had a degree audit system, but it wasn't being used to review student completion. Also, the deadline for students to apply to graduate was in the middle of the term the student intended to graduate, so if a student hadn't completed all the requirements, it was too late to do anything about it. That made for difficult conversations when students learned in March that they weren't going to graduate, Landy said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reams of paper passing through the campus mail and piling up in your office, cryptic handwritten notes, updates to be keyed into several places in your student information system. If that describes your course scheduling process, you might want to consider an online solution like the one officials at the University of Massachusetts developed. The Class Automated Proposal System enables the Registrar's Office to use its resources more effectively, said Patrick Sullivan, deputy university registrar. INSET: Online course approval system has multiple benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wasted time and energy. These are two headaches that are likely common for both your staff and students when it comes to paper‐driven veterans certification processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on new working paper which offers guidelines regarding conflicts of interest released by the American Council on Education in the U.S. It relates that the working paper proposes basic principles and identifies questions and criteria to guide financial aid and admissions staffers review of policies and situations that may raise ethical concerns.

The article offers information about the cost control by the Western Kentucky University, Glasgow, Kentucky. It is reported that the office of the registrar, is offering online transcript requests which will save the time of printing, opening and processing envelopes. Freida Eggleton, registrar at the university, said that the biggest concerns when facing a budget cut is the potential loss of staff.

The article reviews the OnBase document imaging software from Hyland Software.

LOS ANGELES — Just because a commencement ceremony runs the way it always has doesn't mean there aren't opportunities for improvement. That was the thought that guided the University of Iowa toward making a more sustainable and accessible commencement ceremony, a process that Julie Fell, senior associate registrar; and Sara Sullivan, registrar services coordinator, outlined in a session at the annual conference for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most Registrar's Offices have a fair amount of paper coming in. Keeping it organized in a way that makes the information on the paper usable is an ongoing challenge for many registrars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The University of Northern Iowa didn't change its diploma for many years. But some alumni were disappointed with their documents, said Jennifer Suchan, assistant registrar. The paper was light, almost like copy paper. The font was elegant but hard to read. Some graduates thought their names were misspelled because some letters could be misread as other letters. And some graduates wondered why a particular building was pictured in the background. It was one where they had not taken classes, and they didn't feel a connection with it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BALTIMORE, MD. — In the not‐too‐distant past, a transcript was always printed on paper. A diploma was printed on paper or sheepskin. But current technology enables credentials to be more useful to students than paper documents could ever be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LAS VEGAS — Among today's college students, there's been a shift in perspective about what actually qualifies as cheating, according to Kathy Sulentic, Associate Director of Enforcement with the NCAA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tuition drops due to COVID‐19White paper offers COVID‐19 guidance for FERPAUniversity system announces spring classes to continue onlinePoll shows California unlikely to approve admissions ballot issue [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on Diana R. Maul, registrar at Teachers College of the Columbia University. Maul states that she had never planned to become a registrar but became one by chance. The projects on which she is currently working are being described in the article, which include, completing the final phase of imaging paper records, eliminating paper forms, and combining noncredit and credit courses in the registration and records systems.

The article presents the decision of the Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO) regarding the case of the student right violation through the plagiarism service of a university. FPCO has received an inquiry if the university who require the students to pass their papers in a plagiarism screening violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FPCO ruled that the university has the right to employ the screening service to avoid piracy.

The definition of education record is pretty simple and very broad: (1) personally identifiable to a student, (2) maintained by an institution receiving federal funding administered by the Department of Education. The word "maintained" has created some confusion. It essentially means that the record is on file at a college or in the possession of a school official at the college. And, of course, it goes without saying that an education record does not lose its protected Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act privileges if the record is removed in some manner from the college, or copied, by an unauthorized third party. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kristi Wold‐McCormick has been a registrar for the last 16 years, the last four and a half of them as the university registrar at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Before that, she worked in the Registrar's Office at North Dakota State in Fargo. At both institutions, she used PeopleSoft. "A few years ago, we really looked at leveraging the technology in PeopleSoft to modernize paper‐based processes," Wold‐McCormick said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers the author's insight regarding the utilization of electronic document storage of the University of Southern California (USC). It mentions that the Registrar's Office of USC has converted many documents from paper to electronic format using a converter product from Laserfiche, which is utilized to convert transcripts records from 1880 to electronic format. Details related to the advantages of using electronic document storage that offered easy access of files are also provided.

The article presents tips and products for planning spring commencement ceremonies. It says that the most sustainable option for commencement ceremonies is to use gowns made from recycled plastic bottles from Herff Jones Inc. It mentions that GrandImages could be the professional photographer for the ceremony to help parents and students on their commemorate pictures. It adds that customizable paper tubes from The Jonesville Paper Tube Corp. can be considered in choosing low-cost diploma covers.

The article reports that Bradley University in Illinois and Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio have implemented the use of the Scrip-Safe electronic transcript transmission service. It notes that sending transcripts electronically through eScrip-Safe's network saves registrars and high school counselors time, money, paper, and improves customer service. It is noted that schools can send transcript files to Scrip-Safe's server which converts it into portable document files (PDF) or XML format.

The article discusses a court case involving a graduate student of the College of Saint Rose who charged the school for discrimination resulting in dismissal. The U.S. District Court of the Northern District of New York, upon review, found the paper for which the student got a failing mark to be plagiarized. The court ruled that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that the student's disabilities played a part in the dismissal. It added that there is ample reason to believe that the student engaged in plagiarism.

The article focuses on the application of an online system for processing transfer-credit evaluations in the Georgia Institute for Technology's Registrar's Office, helping staff members save time and improve communication. Since the adoption of the system in summer 2011, more than 1,200 courses have been evaluated and the system produced 5,700 e-mails. Associate registrar Zachary Hayes discusses the new generation of students who transfer to the Georgia Institute for Technology.

Clearinghouse to be part of blockchain education, career networkAssociate degrees earned at the same rate as bachelor's degreesStudy shows gender gap in grade‐change requestsReview resources to assist campus with coronavirus preparations [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At Cornell College in Iowa, students take one class at a time for three‐and‐a‐half‐week sessions. The college has been using the block schedule since 1978, but it has attracted increased attention from other institutions because of the flexibility it provides during the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features the initiative of Kathy Bucklew, registrar and director of admissions at Polk State College in Florida, to implement electronic systems in the academe. It states that Bucklew configures the student information system and identifies processes that can be simplified or automated to support college policies and state regulations. It adds that Bucklew utilized the portable document (PDF) product from Avow Systems Inc. to convert paper transcripts into electronic transcripts.

PHOENIX - Moving transcript requests from paper forms to an electronic format can improve the transcript fulfillment experience for your staff members and your students. With electronic ordering, you can provide quick turnaround and 24-hour access to transcript ordering. But making the change can seem like a daunting task for any office. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers the result of a survey regarding the transcript fees of registrar offices across the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean Area. The survey revealed that majority of respondents' institutions charge for transcripts. It also shows that 30 percent of the public institutions do not provide electronic transcripts compared to nearly 48 percent of the private institutions. Also presented is the purpose of the transcript fees collection.

When the enrollment services division at Central New Mexico Community College started looking at digital services for diplomas, transcripts, and other credentials, they were guided by the institution's strategic plan. One of the plan's priorities was to shift from college‐owned technology to student‐owned technology, said Feng Hou, chief information officer and chief digital learning officer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being sued is many people's worst nightmare. Imagine a process server handing you a thick envelope of legal papers bearing your name next to the word “defendant,” and reading about alleged actions you took (or failed to take), and finally, seeing that the plaintiff seeks to recover a large sum of money from you. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the strategies for communicating effectively with busy students.

The article presents various benefits of eTranscript systems including touch-free PDF transcript processing, ability to send documents and immediate deliveries.

The article presents views of various people on the use of eTranscript systems for reading PDF including university registrar Rob Fitzgerald, Lisa Goldberg of software services provider Ellucian and Adriene Doray-Franklin of NSC. It further discusses various benefits of the system including time saving, controls offline viewing and consists of a digital certificate.

The article discusses a court case wherein parents of a minor student filed an appeal to the U.S. Family Policy Compliance Office (FCPO) against their child's teacher. The appeal came after the teacher allegedly violated the child's rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act after disclosing to other students that their son plagiarized his research paper. However, FCPO states that parents should provide more information before an investigation arises.

The article focuses on how Wendy Kutcher, university registrar at Temple University in Pennsylvania, solves the problems regarding budget cuts on universities such as using online solutions to lessen the use of paper forms, and in improving customer services without adding fees.

The article discusses a court case wherein a discrimination against a black nursing student was ruled by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education. The student claimed that she was dismissed from a nursing program when she failed the Nursing III final examination, while two white students who also failed the exam were allowed to continue. The court held that one of the white students was allowed to retake the examination despite a less than 75 grade point average.

The article offers information on the advantages of using the Avow Systems Inc. system for electronic delivery and transcript ordering. It cites that the implementation of the system at the University of Kansas (KU) was beneficial to university registrar Cindy Derritt and her staff members. Avow Systems Inc. vice president for higher education services Dennis Dulniak says that institutions can cut down their expenses on sending paper transcripts and save time through the system.

The article discusses a court case involving a press operator who charged his company of allegedly subjecting him to a hostile work environment when it learned of his hepatitis C diagnosis. The U.S. District Court of Middle District of Florida concluded that the hostile work environment claim was woefully deficient since the plaintiff failed to show that working conditions were unbearable. The court ruled that the company had no obligation to change the essential strenuous requirements of a job.

The number of important issues facing college administrators seems to be growing exponentially. On any given day, a college leader could be dealing with declining enrollment, the pending Supreme Court decision that will erase or reshape affirmative action, the struggle to educate students affected by the last two‐plus years of the pandemic, and a free speech battle that's just a professor's comment away from igniting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Overturn of Roe v. Wade encourages transfer plansFewer high school students choosing collegeMost higher ed employees don't feel heard at workData show campus vaccine mandates saved lives [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PHOENIX — Keeping your office running smoothly and efficiently is tantamount to keeping your institution running smoothly and efficiently. When Armstrong State University was consolidated with Georgia Southern University in January 2018, the admissions and enrollment services offices reviewed and overhauled methods for processing student applications and records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Case name: Dopp v. State University of New York, No. 522691 (N.Y. Ct. App. 01/07/17). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the implication of early alert systems for high-risk students in Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It mentions that the university had a paper-based system but a new electronic system works directly with its student information system. It notes that the faculty of the university made a proposal for an electronic system which had been approved. Moreover, the electronic alerts enable officials to reach out to students to help them.