Colleges and universities are using innovative methods to improve services that affect the institution's enrollment-management function, primarily in registration and information management. Registrars' offices can also promote academic excellence by incorporating honors into transcripts, participate in student recruitment by providing timely…

Arapahoe Community College's choice of a person-to-person phone-in registration system over touch-tone phone-in registration allows for individualized assistance to students in addition to the phone's efficiency and convenience. (MSE)

College records continue to accumulate, and either new record-keeping technology must be implemented or new personnel hired. New technology is expensive, but not when capabilities, demands, and personnel requirements are considered. However, more advanced record-keeping necessitates more technically sophisticated staff. (Author/MSE)

Touch-tone telephone/voice response registration is an exciting and effective use of advanced technology in college management, but the transition to the system must be well planned, the needs of all users considered, good compromises sought, and faculty and students convinced it will work. Then it must be successful. (Author/MSE)

Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers which relate to computer assisted operations, registration, records, and schedules are summarized. Names and institutions of conference participants are included. (MSE)

A private college's computer-managed preregistration system considers the degree of student interest in or need for enrollment in a specific course and helps provide optimal course schedules and course access. The rates of improvement in course registration for students at all levels are noted. (MSE) (>

The forseeable contributions of advanced technology, especially the campus "omniphone," to the functions of college admissions and registration are outlined, and the need for staff development in the areas of media use, computer literacy, information presentation, and enrollment management is discussed briefly. (MSE)

Northwestern State University (Louisiana) prepared a grant proposal for a comprehensive development plan to strengthen academic support services, including automated credit articulation, desktop registration, and a telephone registration and voice response information system. Funded by Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the project has…

Touchtone telephone registration and related computer student information system technologies can provide more efficient use of faculty, curriculum, and classroom space. Faculty, departments, and students all gain a degree of control. More in-depth and precise research must be undertaken and shared among institutions. (MSE)

Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers which relate to nontraditional programs, including programs for special categories of students, are summarized. Names and institutions of conference participants are included. (MSE)

Examines the use of instructional management, which incorporates college student records and registration and acknowledges their place as partners with faculty in managing curriculum delivery. Describes the evolution of this approach at Boston College (Massachusetts), including applications in degree auditing, distributed systems, room scheduling,…

Analyzes the registrar's role and responsibilities at four Taiwan universities: National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University, National Taiwan Institute of Technology, and Tamkang University. Compares their roles to American registrars' roles in organizational structure, catalog and other publications, classroom scheduling, student…