AACRAO NetNews

Volume VII, Number 4

June 16, 1999

American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

Editor:  Paul Aucoin, pgaucoin@samford.edu

Subscription Manger:  Erika Watts, wattse@aacrao.nche.edu

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IN THIS ISSUE:

• News about your Colleagues

• WE NEED YOU!! – by Jerry Montag, Vice Chair, Nominations and Elections Committee

• Improvements in Test Score Deliveries on the Horizon

• Update on MOSIS '99
  

• Caught in the Surf, Websites You Can Use

• Frustrations with Computers Increasing

• Wondering Where the Time Goes

• Calendar of Events

• Position Announcements

• Contact Addresses for AACRAO Board Members

News about your Colleagues

Cherie R. Hatlem  moved from associate registrar at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho to associate registrar at The American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).  She was familiar with Thunderbird from her position in the College of Business at University of Northern Iowa and as registrar at Concordia College-Moorhead MN.  Cherie started in our profession as registrar at Westmar College in LeMars, Iowa (now closed). She was responsible for degree audit and graduation analysis at the University of Iowa, registrar at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, registrar at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, associate registrar at Lewis-Clark State College (due to her husband's employment) in Lewiston, Idaho and now Thunderbird.

Chip Goldstein is moving just down the road from College of Notre Dame, to the world headquarters of Oracle Corporation, where he will be a software specialist for higher education applications. Oracle is assembling a team to develop internet-based applications to meet the administrative, business, and student services needs of colleges and universities world-wide. He will be continuing to work with Stephanie Anabo, the Associate Registrar at College of Notre Dame, who is also joining the development team at Oracle. Also, Stephanie was the former Registrar at Mount Ida College.  Chip has been Registrar at CND for ten years and previously was Assistant Director of Admissions at The University of Michigan-Flint and Associate Director of Admissions at the University of Detroit-Mercy.

Wake Forest University has announced the appointment of Dorothy A. (Dot) Sugden as University Registrar. Dot has been employed with the university in its information systems area for twelve years, most recently as Database Manager. Prior to that, she was heavily involved in programming for the student records systems.

Jon Curtis has retired after 29 years as Registrar at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin.  His career spans high school teaching in Carthage and Troy, NY for three years followed by 4 years as Assistant Director of Admissions at SUNY at Albany. In 1970 he went to St. Norbert, where he has spanned punched cards to internet.  Jon says he marvels at the advancements in technology. He has lived in Green Bay long enough to see the Packers get back to the Super Bowl. Within 18 months he expects to move to the area around Jackson, Tennessee.  He wants a milder climate, a Chicago Cubs farm team as baseball is his real true love and land elevation rather than Green Bay flat.

Effective May 1, 1999, Dennis J. Dulniak became University Registrar at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Dennis was most recently Registrar at Austin Peay State University since 1990 and formerly Director of Institutional Research and Registrar at Lander University, Director of Institutional Research at Ohio Wesleyan University, Assistant Registrar at Montana State University and Assistant Registrar at the University of Rochester. He can be reached via (407) 823-3016 or by his new e-mail address, ddulniak@mail.ucf.edu.   Dennis says he'll certainly miss his Tennessee colleagues, but he and his wife Nancy will soon move into a home with suitable guest quarters for visitors.

Patricia M. Dougherty, Registrar in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York started out as a keypunch operator just about 40 years ago in Machine Records which merged with Rand Hall and became Computer Services. She processed all the student records on the machinery that existed before computers and then gradually changed over to computers as the years went by.  After 16 years there, she worked for the University Registrar's Office as the co-ordinator of Student Records for 12 years. She then began a 12-year stint as the Registrar for the College of Arts and Sciences, a job that ends next week when she retires. She will join her husband in retirement and they will be staying in Ithaca.   Patty says she will enjoy catching up with life which will include travel, gardening, family (5 grandchildren too), getting 38 years of photos in albums, snowmobiling, doing volunteer work, and much, much more.

Each year, all members of AACRAO have an opportunity to get involved with our association. This may be as a member of a standing committee, interassociation representative, presenter at the annual meeting, or part of the local arrangements committee. As we approach the millennium, I am asking you to consider to be part of the committee that chooses the future leaders of AACRAO or to be a part of the nominating committee.

This year, nominations are requested for the Offices of President-Elect, Vice President for International Education, Vice President for Professional Development and Publications and the Nominations and Elections Committee. At the annual meeting, the report from Linda Finley, Chair of the Committee for 1998 indicated that only 34 individual members and five state or regional executive committees nominated individuals. Further, only 24% of our membership voted. For an organization that has approximately 9,000 members, the percentage of members voting or nominating individuals was disappointing.

PLEASE – I urge you to consider nominating someone for an office or the committee. You can also nominate yourself. The nomination form is available on-line at http://www.aacrao.com. This is your opportunity to make a difference and to help in the growth and development of our association. Deadlines for nominations are to be postmarked or faxed by August 6^th, 1999.

Questions – please e-mail me at jxmontag@ualr.edu

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Improvements in Test Score Deliveries on the Horizon

Do you still receive your SAT, GRE, GMAT and TOEFL test score reports on magnetic tape, whenever they are delivered by the U.S. mail? Were you aware that there are faster ways to do this? Some are available today. Others will be available when you fill out your annual delivery agreement forms in the next month or two. Much more detail is available at the web site references listed below.

Pointers to EDI formats, info and activities are at: http://www.standardscouncil.org/ http://www.ets.org/esr/ is the ETS electronic score report website. It has formats, info.  http://www.utexas.edu/student/giac/speede/ has related SPEEDE info, plus specifics about the testing EDI option. http://www.collegeboard.com/ for SAT.

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Update on MOSIS '99

The registration materials for MOSIS '99 have been sent and the dates for the conference are July 11-14, 1999. To make your room reservations, call the Adam's Mark Resort at (904) 254-8200 or (800) 444-2326. Be sure to mention you are with MOSIS/SACRAO to get the conference rates of $95 single/double, $105 triple or $115 quad. Rooms are limited at this rate, so make your reservations now. Rooms must be reserved by June 10, 1999.

If you would like a preview of the hotel, go to http://mosis.sc.edu, where additional information on MOSIS is available.  You will find the program sessions and workshops, the conference registration form and other interesting information on Daytona Beach.  The late conference registration fee is $175.

Remember, the Adam's Mark is a beach resort, so the dress code is casual. Be sure to bring your beach attire and plenty of sun screen. The Daytona Beach International Airport is served by Continental and Delta Airlines, so make your reservation now. Taxi fare is approximately $12 one way from the airport to the Adam's Mark.

For more information on Daytona Beach, try http://www.daytonabeach.com.    If you would like to see and hear the beach, try http://www.volusia.org/beach/driving.htm

Joe Roof
MOSIS Coordinator (904) 254-4489
roofj@dbcc.cc.fl.us

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Caught in the Surf, Websites You Can Use

For information on technology related educational conferences see http://www.educause.edu/ir/events.htmlUPCOMING

C. Anthony "Tony" Broh of  Princeton tells of a website that allows you to buy new or old books online at "the cheapest available price."  He calls it his cite sight site. See http://www.addall.com/

Go to http://www.quicken.com/saving/checkup/ for a financial health checkup.

See how much can you afford for house payments at http://www.homepath.com/hpc2.html

For answers to questions about commencement regalia see the ACE Costume Code at http://www.acenet.edu/faq/costume_code.html

For information about the new 1999 edition of the Commonwealth Universities Yearbook see www.acu.ac.uk/pandi/cuyinfo.html.   The book provides a wealth of information for faculty members and students wishing to establish international links at both research and graduate study level. It also plays an important role in providing registrars and others involved in verifying academic qualifications of overseas students with authoritative, factual summaries of the degree structures in a wide range of universities in both the developed and, particularly, the developing world.

Note:  If you know of a website that you think may be useful to your colleagues, please send the URL to Scott Dittman at sdittman@wlu.edu so that it may be considered for inclusion in a future issue of NetNews.  Tell a little about why you like it, and be credited with the catch. 

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Frustrations with Computers Increasing

According to an article in a recent Washington Post, office workers are getting increasingly frustrated with their computers, according to a Compaq-sponsored survey from London research firm MORI, and the frustration is leading to high rates of computer abuse. Among the typical forms of abuse are swearing at PCs, physically hitting or kicking the computer, bullying the IT department, absenteeism, and bad-mouthing the employer.   Workers said computer or software problems cause more than one interruption in work each day, and many said it often takes more than an hour to fix the problem. Some respondents said they had missed work deadlines because of computer problems, and many were angered by error messages that are written in technical jargon rather than plain English. Nearly all respondents reported swearing at their computers. IT executives said that the swearing is often directed at them, pointing to a growing rift between the IT department and computer users.

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Wondering Where the Time Goes

Reuters reported a recent poll conducted by Louis Harris and Associates indicates that the average online computer user in the U.S. spends six hours a week surfing the Web. That time does not include sending and receiving e-mail, which is the most popular online activity. Sixty-three percent of online users say they use e-mail "often," a 10% increase since September 1998. The next most popular activity (39%) was conducting research for work or school. Thirty-one percent of users shop online, with books the most frequently purchased item (software ranked in second place).

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Calendar of Events

MOSIS (Managers of Student Information Systems) will hold its annual conference on July 18-21 in Daytona Beach.  Please see http://mosis.sc.edu/ for the details about this premier summer conference.

Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC) Strategy, Technology, Organization, Relationships, and Mission (STORM!) August 6-11, 1999, Snowmass Village, Colorado http://www.educause.edu/sac/sac99/sac99.html

AACRAO Annual Meetings:

April 9-13, 2000, New Orleans, LA  http://www.neworleans.com
April 21-25, 2001, Seattle, WA   http://www.seattle.com/visiting/index.html
April 13-18, 2002, Minneapolis, MN
April 6-10, 2003, Washington, DC

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Position Announcements

You may now view position announcements at the AACRAO website. Point your browser to the AACRAO home page at http://www.aacrao.com, then click on the Jobs Online link in the light green box on the home page.

Contact Steve Alexander at the AACRAO Office if you wish to place a paid announcement on the site, (202) 293-9161 or by e-mail to:  alexanders@aacrao.nche.edu  

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