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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1985)
Computerized registration has many benefits, say proponents By Darryl Joannides Of th« Kmwald Aftor a long period of frustration on the part of students. faculty and administrators, the dual issue of computerized registration and an in tegrated computer system for the University may finally be resolved. Herb Chareck, University registrar and a key figure in implementing the integrated system, sees several advantages to computer registration. “It allows the University to plan and develop a time schedule responsive to student needs over a period of time,” he says, adding that it can also aid short- and long-range planning for the administration. In addition, it would assign students classes on a priority basis, allowing seniors greater cer tainty of receiving the classes they need before they graduate, he says. Another benefit would be 'an automatic: tui tion assessment procedure” that would eliminate errors made by the current manual system. . Two years ago, the State Board of Higher Education put a freeze on the purchase of all com puter hardware and software systems for ad ministrative purposes in an effort to limit pur chases of systems that may not be compatible with a state wide computer system they are plan ning to develop. The-freeze has had a substantial effect on the administrative computer system because the data banks were already working at full capacity when •the freeze was • implemented, says Dick Hill, • University Provost. The University had a committee to work on . the development of a computer registration system several years ago. Hill says, but the pro • posal they came up with at the time was for the purchase of t}0 IBM 38 software package and was " -.found to.be inadequate for the University's needs. New, evaluations show this may have been a "mistake Within a few months the board froze all purchases of administrative computer systems, but in retrospect some University "administrators •• .- feel t'heTBM’38 could have been a good purchase at-the time". . . • ° • * . A proposal currently, being submitted to the', state Legislature will allow researc':h.and develop ment .for an .integrated, information. system’ to begin1 if-.it passes, says Terry- Hippenhammer, -Director of Information Systems/ Services in Chancellor Bud,Davis'office. ■' . .— As early, as last February. Ifavis . began .-• meeting with Gov! Vic-Atiyeh and two computer "companies, to discuss the implementation'of ail OSSHK;Integrated Information Plan.: . . .. ", The system will , incorporate financial, budget, payroll, personnel, office'and library automation/ functioning on an OSSHE telecom* - nfunjeatiuhs network' "capable of transmitting voice. data;and video signals. . .. The. integrated system will be constructed .from existing hardware and software* "eliminating-the time required to develop a new . : product;” Hippenhammer says. - . The two yendors involved in the system are Honeywell and Systems Computer Technology Corporation (SCT), the former specializing in hardware and the latter in software. “The largest hurdle has been getting two computer vendors to work together.” Hippenhammer says. in terms of computer registration for students, the system would take over the opera tions of the current arena scheduling process. There are two types of computer registration processes. Hippenhammer says — an on-line system and a pre-registration system. An on-line system would be similar to arena scheduling in that students would go to a designated place at a scheduled time. They would bring a list of requested courses and sub mit it to a computer operator, who would input the data, showing the student which courses were closed. The student walks away knowing exactly what courses he or she will have for the next term. Pre-registration entails filling out a scantron form and mailing it to the registrar’s office during the previous term. The computer then sorts the information, adjusts for any closed courses by substituting the student's alternative choices, and mails the student a course confirmation, in cluding a tuition bill. Under the pre-registration system, “the University can allocate and reallocate courses to better meet student needs," Hippenhammer says. While it has not been decided, .the board seems to be leaning toward this type of system. In order to accommodate student needs, both students and faculty will need to adapt to taking non-prime time courses, avoiding the traditional 9:30 a.m. to t:30 p.m. time slots. Chereck says. The oiily thing left to do before research and development can begin is to “touch base with the appropriate legislative committees,” Hip penhammer says. The chancellor's office has already submitted a request to meet with legislators and is awaiting a confirmation date. he. says, adding that "once 1 get the okay (from the legislators). I'm going to go for it". * : • '• < - In addition to computer registration, the system .will affect all offices on campus by 'systematically integrating them with one another. This means if a student submits a name change at the registrar's.office in Oregon.Hall and then walks- to the journalism school io make a grade inquiry,' the name change will .already be corrected. ■ • . ’ • Likewise, if a student pays her tuition bill and needsOto prove to an instructor that she has paid.jhe professor can simply call up her file on any terminal' and" pheck her fee status This eliminates' the problem of duplicated effort, avoiding bureaucratic red tape. 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