Office of The Registrar

It has been a busy end of term for the Office of the Registrar! Students have been cleared, degrees have been posted, and diplomas are making their way out the door. We fielded 214 contacts following the grade submission deadline and continue to refine our communications to instructors about the importance of on-time grades.

Several OTR team members are also hard at work supporting the Coursedog project, a system that will ultimately replace our course and curriculum approval systems (ECAS and PCAS).

Below are a few other highlights from the team:

• We are hiring! We are currently reviewing applicants for a Student Services Professional 1 position, and soon we’ll be posting for a new Student Services Professional 2, a position that will primarily support student athlete eligibility on our Service Operations Team.
• The team continues to work with Parchment on a timeline to upgrade our transcript ordering platform to a new version (we anticipate this will be done early spring).
• The TES team will likely hit 15,000 courses reviewed since 2018 this month. 
• We continue to see a record number of courses being submitted each month to be reviewed for direct equivalency. So much volume has allowed us to expand the team recently by adjusting two OTR staff members roles to include TES work.
• Degree audits are being updated with last minute spring 2023 and upcoming fall 2023 curriculum changes. UMD GPAS implementation is in its final leg of the marathon with a go live hopefully in late spring.